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Ktr H Garden Line does not necessarily
endorse any of the products or services advertised

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on this program. Welcome to ktr
H Garden Line with Skip rictor Crazy Trip.

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Just watch him as wool a sign. Good morning, sun, It's

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a great morning, could be alive, a great morning to talk about gardening.

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We uh, that's what we do
here, talk about all kinds of

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things gardening. I'll jammer on for
a little bit and then you guys call,

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and then I jammer and that's kind
of how it works. But I

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want to give you our phone.
We'd love to have you give us a

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call. Seven one three two one
two fifty eight seventy four. Seven one

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three two one two fifty eight seventy
four. I'm I'm kind of excited this

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morning. We have a fellow from
Start of Hope coming to be a guest

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on the show. We're going to
visit with him a little bit and learn

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a little bit more about Star Hope
and some of the things that they do

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there. You know that Star Hope
has been around a long time and on

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a serving people here in our community, making a difference. Did you know

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that they provide more than a thousand
homeless and nearly homeless men, women,

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and children, benefits and services every
day. They feed there, for example,

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six thousand meals in one week.
They have the Downtown Men Center.

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They have a cornerstone community, Christ
centered community in Houston for more than one

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hundred years. Oh my gosh,
that's that is a very long time.

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They obviously have a heart for people. They have a Love and Action Van.

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That's a van that takes essentially the
ministry to the street. People have

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an opportunity for prayer for shelter,
to be part of a recovery programs,

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to be part of training here in
the Houston area. They serve Harris,

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they serve for ben Bassoria and Montgomery
Counties. And when I visited the recent

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time, boys, it changed since
the last time I stopped by. The

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facilities are just really really set up
well. I mean that's it's a nice,

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you know, nice clean place for
people to stay. You know,

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you're you're homeless for whatever reason.
It gives you a place to stay,

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gives you meals, teaches you about
getting a job, helps you with the

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process of learning about getting and holding
a job. There is a even a

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little kind of a thrift store type
thing in there. Basically it's it's nice

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clothing that you could put on where
to an interview? I mean, think

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about this. You know, there's
a lot of things we take for granted,

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Like if probably most of you listening, we're going to go in for

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an interview, you'd know a few
things about well, I need to present

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myself well and and so on.
But what if you didn't even have clothes

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that were decent to dress to show
up. You don't want to dress to

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show up at an interview looking like
you know you who are homeless and because

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you have a home now you have
a Star of Hope home and just providing

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people that platform that um resources to
be able to be prepared for changing their

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life and oftentimes for the life of
the kids that they have. And there's

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a lot of reasons that people end
up on the street unable to take care

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of themselves. There's there's just lots
of you know, when you when you

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think about homeless, I'll bet that
what comes to your mind when you think

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about the details of it, not
just a mental picture, but you know,

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why why are someone homeless? Who
who are these people that are homeless?

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I bet that that comes to your
mind is not an accurate one because

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there's a lot of caricatures of homelessness. And while there are people who maybe

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you know, just don't really care
to take hold of their life and make

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something of it, there are a
lot lot more people who used to have

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a job and fellow hard times.
I use the example, maybe it's a

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mom living in a car with their
children because of things in her marriage that

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she had to get away from.
How does that person have a chance to

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make enough money to be able to
have an apartment to put down the deposits?

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Do you see what I'm saying?
And it's not just like I got

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a job today, so I'm okay. STARV Hope provides that bridge. That's

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that's kind of what I'm trying to
describe. If you're willing to change,

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you have an opportunity for a place
to live, training, food, what

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you need to get your feet under
you. There's a training on a lot

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of different topics that they offer and
because of that, it's just, you

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know, it's it's that bridge.
It's it's a way that if you choose

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to take that, you have a
way to get a life and for your

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children to have a future. And
that is a huge huge thing as we

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know. You know, for about
two dollars and eighty cents, which is

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the cost of a fancy cup of
coffee, you can donate a meal and

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there are many other ways. By
the way, you can volunteer at Star

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Hope. If you want to learn
more, go to shmission dot orgh mission

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dot org. Starv Hope definitely has
a special place in my heart. Well,

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you're listening to garden Line. I'm
your host, Skip Ricter, and

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we're here to your gardening questions this
morning. Our phone number seven one three

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two one two fifty eight seventy four
seven one three two one two five eight

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seven four. I was talking with
the folks at dell Web the other day.

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I'm scheduling a site visit back out
there again. Dell Web has a

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new community out in fulsher on FM
three fifty nine, a couple of miles

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from downtown fullsher And for those of
you who don't know, dell Web has

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been building communities for active adults age
fifty five and better for over seventy years.

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I remember when I was a child
going out and seeing a dell Web

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community out in the Phoenix, Arizona
area, and I mean, they've been

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doing this a long time. I'm
not seventy years a little by the way,

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but anyway, you get the idea. They haven't inspired designs and they

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designed the programs around you, lifestyle
programs. The thing I'm excited about about

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this particular Dell Web is that they
have contacted me to help them create a

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community garden on site for residents.
So think about that. You get to

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live and a Delweb community, which
until you see one and learn about it,

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you aren't beginning to imagine how great
that is. And you have a

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community garden. So there's delweb dot
com slash Houston. If you want more

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information, that's d E l w
ebb dot com, Forward slash Houston,

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or you can call two eight one
four or five nine zero six zero nine

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and they can get you plenty more
information. I think you need to check

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it out. It's it's really you
know, when I think about retirement years,

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or even approaching the retirement years,
having a place to live that is

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one that you just really want to
come home to and a lifestyle of you

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know, I know, gardeners.
You can go out to hang out at

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the community garden and visit with people
and you know all that kind of stuff.

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It's a social thing as well.
But Delweb here in the full Shure

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community can provide all of that and
more. Well, we're gonna take a

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break. We're gonna let's see our
phone number seven one three two one two

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fifty eight seventy four. When we
get back. Uh, Sandy, you

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will be the first up. And
then Tammy, I'm in love with the

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sheep Love Magnetic billow And good morning. You're listening to garden Line this morning.

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I'm your host, Skip Richter our
phone number seven one three two one

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two fifty eight seventy four. Seven
one three two one two fifty eight seventy

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four. Hey, have you been
thinking about adding a tree to your landscape?

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You know a tree provides a lot
of value for your landscape. Well,

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you should consider Verdant Tree Farm.
You can go online Verdant tree Farm

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dot com and they've got two locations. They got one on Barker, Cyprus

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and West Houston and West Side of
Houston. Then down in Pearland there's one

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on broad West Broadway Street and then
if you go up to the heights at

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Yale and I ten there's another.
Their Verdant Tree farm. These folks grow

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many, many varieties of cold hearty, drought resistant trees. They have all

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sizes all the way up to eight
hundred or seven hundred gallons. And even

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they have a lot of palms too. By the way, that is an

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especially something that they're well well known
for here in the greater Houston area.

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Check out Verdant if you want to
go in talk with them, say hey,

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here's a picture in my yard.
What country do you think we'll go

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there? Well, they'll do that
too Verdant treefarm dot com. Let's set

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out to Cyprus. We're going to
talk to Sandy. If I can get

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over here and push the right button, here we go. Hello Sandy,

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Hey Skip, good morning, Good
morning to you. I wanted to ask

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you. I know I emailed you
about my weed. Can I put out

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something? Um? I texted you, I mean, I emailed you about

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my weed and send you pictures,
and you asked if you can use them

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again? Can I put something else
out? Like we'd beat again right now?

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I would say it's eight weeks,
eight weeks, it's been eight weeks.

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I would if you've used that exact
product before, I would not use

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it again. I would I would
write and watch because it's getting a little

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bit hot for weed beater. So
I know you tell me to use Celsius

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if you need to do a post
emergent broad leaf, now I would.

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I would use Celsius just because those
other products are very effective, but they're

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just like they're kind of hard on
weeds. They can be a little hard

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on Saint Augustine when it gets in
the operatis and above, and we are

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definitely above. So if I do
Celsius in the morning, like right now,

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um, joy, water it and
it's okay if it gets one hundred

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degrees during the day. You know
what, I don't know the technical answer

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to that, Sandy. So what
I would do if it were me,

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as I would let us get out
of this one hundred degree thing we're in

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right now. It's gonna we're gonna
go back to some you know, there's

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a wee periods where we're back in
normal again. And once it comes down

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and it's down in the mid nineties
or even a little higher upper nineties,

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maybe then do it instead of right
now. It's just too blazing hot right

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now. Okay, all right,
thank you. I appreciate the call,

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you bet, thank you you take
care. You know, if you are

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interested in having your landscape look it's
best. You need to know about the

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folks at peerscapes dot com. Jason
and his team out there are the one

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stop shop for all things landscaping.
By the way, if you want to

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give him a call, write this
down two eight one three seven zero fifty

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sixty three seven h fifty sixty or
you can go to pierscapes dot com find

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out more information. They do everything
landscape designs, irrigation, lighting, drainage,

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all kinds of things, very high
quality, very high highly educated and

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trained employees do the job right pier
Scapes. I think you will be very

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pleased with the kind of landscape you
end up with when you call pier Scapes.

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Let's head out to Hitchcock and we're
going to talk to Tammy this morning.

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Good morning, Tammy, good morning. How are you. I'm good?

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How are you? I'm well?
Thank you. I have about a

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twelve inch raised bed and I had
bought a private Barbados. It's in like

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a three gallon pot and I'm wondering
if and it's gonna be in full sun.

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I'm wondering if I can plant it
in this kind of heat, or

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do I need to wait? You
can? You could if you want to

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wait just for it to come off
a little bit and be in the mid

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nineties or upper nineties wherever it's gonna
end up, you can. But you

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could also plant that plant now.
It can take a lot of heat.

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But here's the key. The whole
root system is in that little cylinder you

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put in the ground. So you
got to keep watering it as if it

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were in a pot for a while
because the roots aren't out. Once that

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thing establishes, it's actually pretty drought
tolerant, but right now it's not doubt

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toolerant because it pumps out little cylinder
dry. So just not too much water.

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You know, you don't need to
put four gallons a day on it,

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but just make sure it stays adequately
moist, and kind of look at

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the plant and watch it. It'll
it'll kind of move fold its leaves a

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little bit, or it has a
thing it does with its leaves that it's

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kind of a sign like I need
to I need to water. You'll know

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when you see it. Okay,
okay, good, okay, because I

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was hoping the planet this morning.
Good have fun, you bet I appreciate

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that call our phone number seven one
three two one two fifty eight seventy four.

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Uh. You know, are the
folks up at Arburgate Beverley Inner Team

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there is that they have created the
destination of the folks that love the tour

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garden centers. I do still think
that we need the Houston Chamber of Commerce

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needs to have a greater Houston Garden
Area tour as part of the deal.

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There's just so many great places here, but I'm telling you Arbourgate is an

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extraordinary place. It is one of
the gardener's garden centers. You know,

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people literally come to town to go
to Arbourgate from far away. I can

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attest to that. So it's about
a mile and a half west of two

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forty nine and tom Ball on twenty
one, twenty nine twenty. They've got

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an organic food a four four three
plus calcium that just feeds anything with roots.

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They have a soil for an application, and a compost that improves any

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and all soil. All of this
is completely organic, completely easy to do.

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When you're at Arbourgate, you you'll
walk out and just go, oh

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wow, I can't believe this place. And yes, by the way,

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planned some time because you you will
want time to be able to see all

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that they've got going on up there. Good day for Father's Day shopping to

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take your dad with you. I
always enjoy my visits up to Arbourgate.

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I don't know. It's about a
week or so ago. I was visiting

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with Bob down at Southwest Fertilizer,
and Bob and I was going through looking

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at all their products. I do
that periodically from time to time because Southwest,

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if there's a product on the market
that's good for use in your lawn,

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garden, landscape, etc. Southwest
is going to have it on the

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wall. I mean the city's largest
selection of herbicides and secticides, fungicides.

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They have fertilizers, all the kind
of types of fertilizers we talk about here.

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They will provide soil amendments and composts
and bags out there. It's it's

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just a great place to go because
if you don't know what you're doing,

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or you don't know what a bug
is, or you don't want this leaf

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spot is, bring it or bring
a picture in, show it to them

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and they will tell you if you
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you need to get and how you
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of itself is worth a lot,
a lot of value. Speaking of the

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fertilizers in there. When when I
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looking at the line the turf Star
line Nelson has, and it is they

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have so many options for the turf
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use right now would be the slow
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twenty two to ten or yeah,
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provides that gradual feeding. But you
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That typically something I would use in
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on anything year round. It's an
eighteen four nine. It's not a super

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slow release, but it is an
outstanding fertilizer. I mean, they have

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a one called feather Light made with
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organic feeding. They have a carbo
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eat it. Just many options and
going through looking at them, reading the

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labels, looking with tons of nitrogen
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lot about how they're going to be
released. But Nelson's they planned from the

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time they started in nineteen eighty three
to make professional grade horticulture fertilizers that are

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based on the science of how to
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exactly what they've done. You're gonna
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of course I'm meant saying it Southwest
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able to find the kinds of fertilizer
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was talking about our Pride of Barbados. That's one of my favorite summer plants.

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It is it's it has a just
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can imagine yellow orange, even reddish
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it just is like a neon sign
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jokingly say, if you if you
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it's in full bloom, stick a
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it, and people would drive by
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flower. It wouldn't even notice the
pink flamingos because it just screams, look

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at me. It takes the heat
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for anyone who's has one or just
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plant likes hot. It likes hot
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we're going to have a blooming plant
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no. We I usually plant mine
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and then it really kicks into summer
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off a lot. Pride of Barbados
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you if you are in the north
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Quality Feed and Garden. Quality Feed
and Garden. Ken and Chris have had

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this place. I used to go
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they're on Luzon Street, eighteen thirteen
Luzon Street that's near the intersection of equipment

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and a lesion. Quality Feed has
all the nutrient products we're talking about,

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the fertilizers. They have fruit trees, herbs, veggies, they even sell

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bones, eye trees, anything that
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lines that they're going to carry it
there. They really specialize in chickens and

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chicken products, so to keep your
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think two days ago they just got
another shipment in. They're always getting a

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shipment, so give them a call
or go online Quality feed dot com and

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find out when the next shipment is
coming in. If you're interested in some

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chickens. That is a popular deal
right now for sure. Visiting with ken

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they have, and they've got this
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and things that they have, because
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just didn't really look up and notice
the extent. Well, we're going

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to take a break here, get
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number seven one three two one two
fifty eight seventy four bad bad, Good

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morning, Good Sunday morning, Good
Father's Day. Morning. To everybody listening

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to Garden Line. I'm your host, Skip Richter, and our phone number.

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Write this down you want to give
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two one two fifty eight seventy four
two and two five eight seventy four or

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two and two ktrh. If you
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is Father's Day. And you know, I uh, I was kind of

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thinking. The other day. I
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most recently I've been at that one, and I was looking at the stuff

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they have on the wall, and
I mean, it's it is everything you

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can imagine if your dad would even
consider, you know, birding, backyard

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birding. They have got some really
cool stuff to get you started. I

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mean you The squirrel proof feeders are
one of my favorite in squirrel in the

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poles with baffles and things to keep
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quality of feed they have, the
quality of feeders they have wildbirds. Here's

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here's the way I look at it. You can buy cheap stuff and you

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get what you pay for, or
you can buy quality stuff at a very

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very reasonable price that will last you
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time. The kinds of feeders,
of quality of feeders, a kind of

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feed I bought cheap bird feed before, and the birds kick it out on

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the ground. They don't like some
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I referred to him the let's milow
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They don't like that. Wildbirds will
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birds you're interested in attracting. It's
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a whole group of birds each of
the different groups of feeds that they have.

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And there's a wild birds store near
you. There's one in Katie.

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I mentioned Kingwood, Cyprus, pair
Land bel Air, West Houston, and

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I was out at clear Lake not
too long ago when they opened up that

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store. Go to WBU dot com
forward Slash Houston and you can find more

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about wildbirds and may even take Dad
with you. You know, there's a

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there is, like I said,
a lot of interesting stuff, beautiful even

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art and books and just things that
you don't think about. I'm going into

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a bird store. The feed and
feeders and things. Oh no, no,

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way, way more and beautiful stuff, stuff that really enhances the property

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and can even provide that additional entertainment. I look at birds as flying flowers

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and flying music for us, and
that is what I enjoy is going out

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in the morning and sitting and listening
to the birds, watching them at the

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feeder. It's just another interest in
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let me let me talk about that. You know, we think of our

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landscapes as flowers and our lawn and
our you know, shrubs, trees and

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all that, uh and and so
we can create a beautiful picture. So

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they think of a Monet, you
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So we can do that in the
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other things, it adds interest.
When we when we add plants that move

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in the breeze, it adds motion
in a beautiful way. Butterflies going by

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add color, and they add motion
into the landscape. When we plant things

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that are fragrant, and we have
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just talk about that one time.
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I'm not just sitting there looking at
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enjoying the fragrances of the foliage,
whether they go out in the wind or

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whether rub the foliage like mint and
have that fragrance. That's another another sensory

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thing that landscapes can be. And
then and I mentioned movement and birds at

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a feed are butterflies going by the
plants moving in the wind's we have the

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different textures that we can use,
from the narrow lines of a grass to

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the very bold lines of like an
elephant ear something along those lines. And

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it's just a beautiful place to get
out and be a beautiful place to get

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out and enjoy. One of the
things that we're complaining about the heat a

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minute ago. One of the other
things that makes it not so pleasant to

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be out there on the patio,
or mosquitoes, if you have you dealt

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with that. I went out the
other morning to pick some vegetables, digging

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some potatoes actually still in the ground, you know, trying to get back

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around to that chat task, and
the mosquitoes were just, you know,

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they were They were swarming me,
like those little swarms of gnats that go

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around through the air. If you
walk into one, your whole face is

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swarmed with nats. Well, mosquitoes
don't have to be a complete ruin of

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your outdoor enjoyment. You want to
empty the water at water things around.

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That's the catch basins, under your
plants, the sagging gutter that holds water.

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Anything that holds a little bit of
water will breed mosquitoes. But when

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you have water you want you do
want to have there, maybe it's a

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little pond, or maybe you know
some other source of water or some other

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feature of water. You can use
mosquito dunks to keep the mosquitoes out.

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A mosquito dunks a little doughnut floats
on the water, dissolves in about a

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month, cover each dunk about one
hundred square feet of water surface that it'll

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cover one organic I mean, if
a little parasitoid wasp comes to take a

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step or something out of there before
they head off to lay eggs in your

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aphids, if a lady beetle stops
in, if your dog or your family

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cat wants to get a drink,
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All of that, none of it
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disease only of mosquito larva. Now, mosquito dunks are available and all our

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big garden centers we talk about our
favorite Mom and Pops, they're available in

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our feed stores are eliminated hardware store. You will not have any trouble finding

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mosquito dunks, but you ought to
have some on hand. You may even

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grab granules also, if you have
an area that's larger that you want to,

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like right now, get that disease
all through the water. For the

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mosquitoes, you can use the granules
and just scatter them in a larger area.

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But if you need to quickly,
oh my gosh, there's larva.

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Ever where mosquito larva, I've got
to do something. Use the granules for

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that quick emergency release. If you
will, we listen to garden Line.

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Our phone number is seven one three
two one two five eight seven four two

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one two fifty eight seventy four.
If you live anywhere near the Heights,

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that's East eleventh Street specifically as our
target location, and that is where you'll

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find Buchanans native plants six to eleven
East eleventh Street. When you walk into

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Buchanans, just like you're walking into
a whole other world. I mean,

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you know, you go, there's
a section that's just all kinds of native

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plants. By the way, they
have native plants that are that on a

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certain table that are native right here
to the Houston area. So in addition

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to being native to our region or
in our state and things, they can

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draw it all down to local Houston
area native They've got sections where you can

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look at all the shade plants and
you can see them all together, and

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you can kind of plan your shady
landscape, you know, picking some color,

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picking some white. Always use white
in the shade. Also include white

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because it draws the line in and
it or draws the eye in. And

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you can create lines around beds with
white. You can create lines down pathways

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with white. Love white. But
they have everything else, I mean tropicals,

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perennials, roses, tree shrubs,
indoor plants, succulents, Buchanan's native

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plants in the heights. You can
go to Buchanans Plants dot com. By

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the way, when you're there,
sign up for one of their newsletters.

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They I love to read the newsletter, find out what they have next.

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Plus they have educational content in there. Makes it really nice to be able

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to do well. I I was
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a landscape, like color and the
different things we go. For a little

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bit, if we have some time, I'd like to talk a little bit

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about plants for scent and the just
the old factory if you will benefit of

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plants. So we got the benefit
to our eyes, We got the benefit

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to our nose, and the benefit
to our ears of the songbirds, even

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the sound of wind. Do you
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clump of bamboo, not running bamboo, don't plant that now, But and

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listen to the wind go through the
leaves. It sounds like it's raining as

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those papery leaves rub against each other. You just gotta go experience it somewhere.

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here or something where they have the

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bamboo, and check out what I'm
saying. But it's just another kind of

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cool thing that creates this beautiful scene. Your little oasis in the big city.

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I mean, you can turn your
secret garden, your oasis into a

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wonderland. Well seven one three two
one two fifty eight seventy four called Josh.

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We'll get you on the board when
we come back from break. It's

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not unused. It's not unused.
You want to have. But what I

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see you, it's not us see
good morning, good Sunday morning, good

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fathersday morning. You are listening to
guard Line. I'm your host, Skip

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Richter. If you look out your
window and the lights are off at your

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neighbors next doors, go over,
bang on the door, wake, come

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up, tell them they're missing garden
line. They will rise up and call

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you blessed. Well, maybe not
this morning, but they might throw something

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at you this morning. But in
time, as they listen, they will

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realize that, oh my gosh,
this is like fertilizer for your plants.

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It makes everything green and bountiful.
How's that for an oversell of the effects

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of a show. I don't think
it's an oversell. Seven one three two

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one two fifty eight seventy four.
That is our number seven one, three,

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two and two fifty eight seventy four. I have talked to you a

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lot about green Pro, and you
know Greenpro and the services that they offer.

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Well, we there is a company
called Orglon. Now. Orglon is

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the fully organic hybrid fertilization programs for
your lawn. Orglon is owned by the

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same owner as green Pro. At
Arglon, what you're going to find is,

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in addition to taking care of your
lawn, they have bedcare. They'll

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do compost, top dressings as well
as corroboration. Right, you know,

407
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they're part of the Green Fro group. Green Pro Group They are really good

408
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at identifying things. So maybe you
have brown patch or we now call large

409
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patch, maybe takeall patch. Maybe
there's insect activity, you know, what's

410
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going on in my grass here.
They'll look at it. And they specialize

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in the organic approach to lawncare,
so they'll hope you manage your watering setting,

412
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you know, if you've got schedules
and clock to be set, the

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shade, the mowing to ensure the
best lawn that you can possibly have.

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They don't lock you into long term
contracts, so have them come out tryump

415
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for a while. See how you
like it. I know you will.

416
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It's org lawn dot com, org
lawn dot com. We were talking about

417
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some fragrant plants before we went to
break and just I'm gonna I've kind of

418
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been trying to come up to the
list in my head, off the top

419
00:31:00.799 --> 00:31:03.400
of my head about fragrant plants.
And that's always interesting, you know,

420
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It's like you know all these plants
and you're trying to get them to come

421
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to mind right at this moment.
But I have made a little list here

422
00:31:11.359 --> 00:31:12.920
during break I want to go over
with you. First, we're gonna head

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out to Northwest Houston, we're going
to talk to Ralph. Hello Ralph,

424
00:31:18.400 --> 00:31:22.920
good morning, as you're sure,
great program to have. And uh yes,

425
00:31:22.039 --> 00:31:26.599
so my big book contrary, I
hit the big limbs, broke off

426
00:31:26.640 --> 00:31:30.319
of it. I might have talked
to you about this before, but and

427
00:31:30.480 --> 00:31:36.680
now, and it was terrible,
all this weather. It's just not really

428
00:31:36.960 --> 00:31:38.400
I got a big old garden,
you know, and all of it is

429
00:31:38.680 --> 00:31:44.000
just hard on old man to try
to get thing done or anyway, Happy

430
00:31:44.039 --> 00:31:48.519
Father's Day, dude. Oh thank
you you as well. I appreciate that

431
00:31:48.720 --> 00:31:52.119
it's the garden is work, but
I just think we were made to do

432
00:31:52.200 --> 00:31:56.759
that kind of work. That's my
personal opinion. Well I brained these young

433
00:31:56.839 --> 00:32:01.440
kids over there. They've never seen
a garden and they don't know potatoes under

434
00:32:01.440 --> 00:32:05.319
the ground and all this stuff.
So that that worked out good, you

435
00:32:05.359 --> 00:32:07.599
know, true, that's true.
I'll thank you. See well, hey,

436
00:32:08.559 --> 00:32:12.960
it's I always appreciate when you call. Thank you, thank you very

437
00:32:13.000 --> 00:32:16.599
much. Did you have a question
today, Well not really, but I'm

438
00:32:16.599 --> 00:32:20.400
just having you go ahead, get
to the weather right there, just to

439
00:32:20.440 --> 00:32:23.559
eat me up without my good weather. Yeah, yeah, I get it.

440
00:32:23.640 --> 00:32:28.599
I get it, that's for sure. Okay, Al you take care,

441
00:32:29.079 --> 00:32:32.079
have a good five today morning and
maybe before it gets too hot out

442
00:32:32.079 --> 00:32:37.400
there, get something done outside.
Huh oh, yes, I have to

443
00:32:37.440 --> 00:32:40.279
do that all right, Ralph,
appreciate it very much. You take care

444
00:32:42.200 --> 00:32:45.880
our phone number seven one three two
one two fifty eight seventy four. Seven

445
00:32:45.920 --> 00:32:50.960
one three two one two fifty eight
seventy four. You know we're in the

446
00:32:51.119 --> 00:32:55.240
hurricane season now, and when hurricane
season comes good, it's a good idea

447
00:32:55.359 --> 00:33:00.519
walk around the yard, look up
in those trees and can say or do

448
00:33:00.559 --> 00:33:04.640
they need do they need some work? Because making sure you get your trees

449
00:33:04.720 --> 00:33:08.680
trimmed. We talk about here all
the time. Affordable tree service when it's

450
00:33:08.839 --> 00:33:13.799
hurricane season, that's what that's what
we need to do well. Affordable tree

451
00:33:14.200 --> 00:33:15.680
they can do that. They can
do deep root feeding, they can do

452
00:33:15.759 --> 00:33:21.599
consultations. If you're gonna have anything
done around your trees, you do need

453
00:33:21.640 --> 00:33:24.559
to have affordable come in, take
a look at it, make sure that

454
00:33:24.920 --> 00:33:29.079
you know does this need to be
pruned? It? Is it really storm

455
00:33:29.400 --> 00:33:32.559
ready in terms of there's a broken
limb, there's some decay in here,

456
00:33:34.160 --> 00:33:37.200
check all that out. Maybe it's
over power lines, over your fence with

457
00:33:37.200 --> 00:33:40.960
your neighbors, over your house you
always want to make sure you're ready when

458
00:33:42.160 --> 00:33:45.319
hurricane season comes, and Affordable Tree
can do that. And while they're out

459
00:33:45.359 --> 00:33:47.400
there, they'll do all the things
you need. And you can go online

460
00:33:47.559 --> 00:33:52.720
aff Tree Service dot com, Aftree
Service dot com, or just give him

461
00:33:52.720 --> 00:33:57.359
a call. Martin or Joe will
answer his Martin or his wife Joe.

462
00:33:58.039 --> 00:34:01.480
Seven one three six nine nine twenty
six sixty three, seven one three six

463
00:34:01.640 --> 00:34:08.440
nine nine twenty six sixty three our
phone number if you'd like to give us

464
00:34:08.440 --> 00:34:14.360
a call. Seven one three two
one two fifty eight seventy four seven one

465
00:34:14.360 --> 00:34:19.440
three two one two five eight seven
four. Boy, I tell you,

466
00:34:19.519 --> 00:34:22.519
since we're talking about hurricane season,
it reminds me also of our roofs.

467
00:34:23.400 --> 00:34:30.000
I remember when place we used to
live, hailstorms came through, and right

468
00:34:30.079 --> 00:34:36.199
behind the hailstorms were all the trucks
of companies that essentially follow storms around the

469
00:34:36.239 --> 00:34:38.679
country, walking up and saying,
hey, I can get you a claim,

470
00:34:39.039 --> 00:34:42.400
you know, from your insurance company
and get you a new roof,

471
00:34:42.519 --> 00:34:45.679
and so on and so on.
Why not hire somebody that's here. Somebody's

472
00:34:45.719 --> 00:34:51.639
been here for twenty five years of
service fully warranted. In fact, they've

473
00:34:51.679 --> 00:34:57.840
been providing excuse I said that wrong
for fifty years of service. Their warranty

474
00:34:57.920 --> 00:35:01.039
last twenty five years, So what
am I thinking there? Fifty years?

475
00:35:01.360 --> 00:35:07.440
You don't stay a prime business with
high ratings. You don't win the Better

476
00:35:07.519 --> 00:35:15.320
Business Bureau Pinnacle Award in twenty twenty
two without having a good reputation that keeps

477
00:35:15.320 --> 00:35:17.360
you going. You want someone that's
honest. You want someone that's going to

478
00:35:17.440 --> 00:35:21.320
show up and do what they're say
you're going to do to take care of

479
00:35:21.360 --> 00:35:24.039
that investment. Calls your home and
they can do all kinds of things.

480
00:35:24.079 --> 00:35:29.440
They have a solar shingle, the
timberline solar shingle. That's right. You

481
00:35:29.440 --> 00:35:31.880
don't put a panel on top of
your roof. The shingles or the solar.

482
00:35:32.159 --> 00:35:37.519
They have all kinds of other options, metal sea standing, seamed roofs,

483
00:35:37.639 --> 00:35:42.880
metal roofs on site for commercial for
your home. They do at all

484
00:35:42.920 --> 00:35:49.039
Brinkman Quality dot com or two eight
one four eight zero seven six six three.

485
00:35:52.199 --> 00:35:55.239
All right, you're listening to garden
Line and our phone number if you'd

486
00:35:55.239 --> 00:36:01.760
like to give a call seven one
three two one two fifty eight seventy four.

487
00:36:04.559 --> 00:36:12.840
Isn't it time? League City feed
down in the League City area,

488
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so that would be Webster Bay,
Cliff, Lamark, San Leone, Elcomino

489
00:36:16.199 --> 00:36:20.880
Real, Clear Lake City, Dickinson. I need to go on League City

490
00:36:20.880 --> 00:36:24.079
Feeds on Highway three, just a
few blocks south of Highway ninety six in

491
00:36:24.159 --> 00:36:29.719
League City. The Thunderbergs had been
running League City Feed for over forty years

492
00:36:29.800 --> 00:36:32.079
now. League City Feed is that
old time story. They carry the food

493
00:36:32.079 --> 00:36:35.440
out for you. They got all
the stuff you need. Do you have

494
00:36:35.480 --> 00:36:38.360
backyard chickens? They got stuff.
Do you need premium pet food? Check?

495
00:36:38.880 --> 00:36:43.039
Do you need the fertilizers we talk
about on garden line. All the

496
00:36:43.079 --> 00:36:47.360
products to make your plants successful,
pest control products, check and check League

497
00:36:47.400 --> 00:36:58.599
City Feed two eight, one,
three three two sixteen twelve. I was

498
00:36:59.159 --> 00:37:06.039
I was checking out the website for
Vego the other day, and you know,

499
00:37:06.079 --> 00:37:10.639
I've bragged on Vego for a long
long time. The Vego garden beds

500
00:37:10.679 --> 00:37:15.159
are the leader. In fact,
they're the first one here in America to

501
00:37:15.239 --> 00:37:17.639
do the modular metal garden beds.
The ones that are treated. The metal

502
00:37:17.760 --> 00:37:21.920
is treated so it does not rust
and corrode, and then it's painted with

503
00:37:21.960 --> 00:37:25.800
the USDA food grade paint to protect
the outsides. They are beautiful. They're

504
00:37:25.880 --> 00:37:30.039
modular. You can make any shape
you want. It is it just I

505
00:37:30.079 --> 00:37:36.440
don't know in any other way to
garden, go to veegogarden dot com vegogarden

506
00:37:36.559 --> 00:37:39.199
dot com. If you're an organic
gardener, there you go. I mean,

507
00:37:39.239 --> 00:37:43.519
you can't have a better bed than
that. If you're not an organic

508
00:37:43.559 --> 00:37:47.280
gardener, there you go. Don't
go for impostors or impostors around Vego.

509
00:37:47.599 --> 00:37:53.639
That's the original and it's a Houston
company right here at home Vego Garden Beds.

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00:38:08.239 --> 00:38:13.679
Hey, by the way, you
know, today's Dad's day, take

511
00:38:13.679 --> 00:38:17.400
advantage of that. Spend some time
with debt if it fits into the schedule

512
00:38:17.440 --> 00:38:20.639
for you and your family today,
if you had a great day to take

513
00:38:20.719 --> 00:38:23.360
Dad out doing a little bit of
shopping. We've got a lot of wonderful

514
00:38:23.960 --> 00:38:30.320
garden centers and other folks that we
talk about that have the kinds of things

515
00:38:30.360 --> 00:38:35.599
to just really, you know,
set dad up for the beauty outdoors for

516
00:38:35.800 --> 00:38:39.440
enjoyment. There's some quality tools things
like Dad's always need tools. I mean,

517
00:38:39.480 --> 00:38:44.719
that's part of the deal, right, Make sure and get them,

518
00:38:44.719 --> 00:38:47.679
give them the best day you can
thank them for what they did in your

519
00:38:47.719 --> 00:38:52.360
life, for the ways that they
blessed you. Just show your appreciation for

520
00:38:52.400 --> 00:39:00.039
our debts. KTRH Garden Line does
not necessarily endorsed any the products or services

521
00:39:00.039 --> 00:39:07.639
advertised on this program. Welcome to
ktr H Garden Line with Skip Ricter.

522
00:39:15.400 --> 00:39:30.039
Just watching as many Good Sunday morning, Good Father's Day, Sunday morning.

523
00:39:30.400 --> 00:39:34.679
You're listening to garden Line. I'm
your host, Skip Richter, and we

524
00:39:34.880 --> 00:39:38.199
are going to talk about all things
gardening today. I will talk about some

525
00:39:38.239 --> 00:39:42.239
things as well. If you have
some questions, feel free to give us

526
00:39:42.280 --> 00:39:45.559
a call. Be happy to help
you with maybe some garden planning or some

527
00:39:45.599 --> 00:39:50.159
diagnosis, maybe plan identification. Try
to get that on the radio. We'll

528
00:39:50.159 --> 00:39:52.960
give out our best shot. You
just need to call seven one three two

529
00:39:53.000 --> 00:39:59.639
one two five eight seven four seven
one three two one two fifty eight seventy

530
00:39:59.679 --> 00:40:04.840
four. If you live up in
the Tumball area and you are looking for

531
00:40:05.039 --> 00:40:07.800
a great feed store, you're not
going to find anything better than D and

532
00:40:07.880 --> 00:40:13.039
D feed. D and D is
out on twenty nine twenty about three miles

533
00:40:13.119 --> 00:40:17.039
west of two forty nine in Tumball. The Dover family has operated DND since

534
00:40:17.119 --> 00:40:22.280
I don't think about nineteen eighty nine
and this summer they expanded. It was

535
00:40:22.360 --> 00:40:24.960
kind of watching that process and then
went in after they're done and oh my

536
00:40:25.000 --> 00:40:29.000
gosh, now they have a room
for a lot more product. And did

537
00:40:29.039 --> 00:40:31.760
they ever have a lot of product. You'll see the nitro files, You'll

538
00:40:31.760 --> 00:40:37.039
see the microlife, the Bonaide products, Turf Star, Medina Nelson, plant

539
00:40:37.079 --> 00:40:40.119
food. Yeah, they did,
on and on and on lots of things.

540
00:40:40.159 --> 00:40:44.320
They also have plants. You'll find
some roses and citrus, trees and

541
00:40:44.440 --> 00:40:47.719
vegetable seeds and flats of vegetables.
During those seasons. You can get it

542
00:40:47.760 --> 00:40:52.199
all there. Quality food for dogs
like Origin, Diamond, Victor Star Pro.

543
00:40:52.840 --> 00:40:55.599
Of course it's a feed store,
so all the kinds of livestock feed.

544
00:40:55.639 --> 00:40:59.519
You would see. If you got
issues with rats and other rodents,

545
00:41:00.159 --> 00:41:05.119
pest and disease control, anything like
that, DND feed can take care of

546
00:41:05.159 --> 00:41:08.320
you. They can supply what you
need. Check them out again about three

547
00:41:08.360 --> 00:41:14.800
miles west of Highway two forty nine
on twenty nine twenty out in Tumble.

548
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I was discussing fragrant plants before and
by the way, if you're listening,

549
00:41:19.599 --> 00:41:22.000
if you know if you have a
favorite fragrant plant, I would like to

550
00:41:22.079 --> 00:41:24.679
give me a called just let me
hear what it is that. I'm really

551
00:41:24.719 --> 00:41:31.719
curious to know what your favorite fragrant
plants are because fragrance has a way of

552
00:41:31.880 --> 00:41:37.320
bringing back memories. It just sticks
with us. I mean, you can

553
00:41:37.360 --> 00:41:43.719
be eighty years old and remember the
smell of cookies when you would walk into

554
00:41:43.719 --> 00:41:46.039
your grandma's house. You know,
for example, there'll be something like those

555
00:41:46.039 --> 00:41:51.719
fragrances really stick with us. And
it's a beautiful thing to be able to

556
00:41:51.760 --> 00:41:57.079
add fragrance to our landscapes as well. I used to know an old fellow

557
00:41:57.159 --> 00:42:00.239
named mister Colson. He was ninety
years old when I knew him. He's

558
00:42:00.280 --> 00:42:04.039
a community garden up in the Conro
area, and he said something. He

559
00:42:04.119 --> 00:42:07.320
said many things that I've remembered over
the years, but one thing he said,

560
00:42:07.400 --> 00:42:08.840
and this was not his words,
you know, he had heard it

561
00:42:08.880 --> 00:42:15.039
somewhere else. But flowers leave part
of their fragrance and the hand that bestows

562
00:42:15.119 --> 00:42:19.679
them. And when we think about
cut flowers for the house, things that

563
00:42:20.039 --> 00:42:22.920
you know, are beautiful to look
at. When you add to that fragrance

564
00:42:23.079 --> 00:42:27.440
to fill the room, oh my
gosh, it's it just knocks it out

565
00:42:27.440 --> 00:42:29.880
of the park. And you can
have your own cutting garden. And I

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00:42:29.920 --> 00:42:34.000
don't just mean like zinnias coming up. I mean shrubs that you cut blooms

567
00:42:34.039 --> 00:42:38.079
off of lots of different kinds of
plants that have fragrance in their blooms and

568
00:42:38.159 --> 00:42:42.679
in their foliage. So let me
know what's your favorite memory, what's your

569
00:42:42.679 --> 00:42:45.599
favorite fragrant plants? And we will
talk about that at more in a moment.

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00:42:46.119 --> 00:42:50.280
Right now, we are going to
go to Menville and talk to Diane.

571
00:42:50.320 --> 00:42:55.119
Hello, Diane, Yes, hi, I was calling about my high

572
00:42:55.119 --> 00:43:02.039
biscuits. I got two plants that
were from a well known nursery and they

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00:43:02.039 --> 00:43:07.360
were infested with white flies and they've
spread to the tomato plants and even my

574
00:43:07.400 --> 00:43:12.960
marigolds, and I don't know how
to get rid of them. I've tried

575
00:43:13.119 --> 00:43:17.639
neem oil, the vinegar, soap
and water, the raid bug sprays,

576
00:43:17.800 --> 00:43:22.960
and nothing's getting rid of them.
What do I do? Okay? And

577
00:43:22.000 --> 00:43:25.239
so you're I just want to make
sure we do know we're dealing with white

578
00:43:25.239 --> 00:43:30.760
flies. That that's the yes,
the past, okay, Well, yes,

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00:43:30.920 --> 00:43:34.800
white flies. You know, we
used to have things that would just

580
00:43:35.159 --> 00:43:38.480
nuke white flies. We're still around
those kind of things. But the problem

581
00:43:38.519 --> 00:43:42.719
with those is you kill the white
flies, but the white flies bounce back

582
00:43:42.800 --> 00:43:46.360
real fast, they often do,
and all the things that we're keeping white

583
00:43:46.360 --> 00:43:51.039
flies in check we kill, and
they don't bounce back as fast, and

584
00:43:51.079 --> 00:43:54.199
so you end up creating more of
a problem than you started with in a

585
00:43:54.239 --> 00:44:00.320
lot of cases. So I always
try to go as lotox as possible in

586
00:44:00.440 --> 00:44:05.360
dealing with the white flies. And
the pupa from the white fly is underneath

587
00:44:05.360 --> 00:44:07.960
the leaf. It looks like a
little tiny scales, like a lowercase typed

588
00:44:08.039 --> 00:44:13.480
o the pupa. So if you
will put an oil type spray under there

589
00:44:14.079 --> 00:44:17.320
and do it maybe very very late
in the day or very very early in

590
00:44:17.360 --> 00:44:22.000
the morning, definitely not in one
hundred degree sun. Put a little oil

591
00:44:22.039 --> 00:44:25.039
spray into there and try to smother
those white fly pupa and the white fly

592
00:44:25.079 --> 00:44:30.559
eggs too, by the way,
that's one way to suppress them. There's

593
00:44:30.679 --> 00:44:35.760
not just you know, other than
that kind of spray. I'm just not

594
00:44:35.880 --> 00:44:38.239
real crazy about a lot of sprays. I find that they're a problem,

595
00:44:38.280 --> 00:44:42.599
but then they tend to kind of
go away. That nature has a way

596
00:44:42.639 --> 00:44:47.119
of rebalancing itself, but that doesn't
help much when you're absolutely inundated with white

597
00:44:47.119 --> 00:44:52.719
flies at the moment, right,
Yeah, they've been hanging on for about

598
00:44:52.719 --> 00:44:59.840
a month. Okay, Well they're
persistent. Then I would consider that you

599
00:45:00.199 --> 00:45:07.280
probably would get some control with a
systemic product like amida cloprid, But if

600
00:45:07.360 --> 00:45:12.559
the plant blooms and attracts pollinators,
bees and other pollinators, you would you

601
00:45:12.559 --> 00:45:16.760
don't want to use that on its
root system. So the tomato, for

602
00:45:16.800 --> 00:45:22.280
example, I don't know that there's
a vegetable labeled amid a cloprid. I'd

603
00:45:22.280 --> 00:45:24.159
have to look into that, kind
of doubting that there might be. But

604
00:45:24.880 --> 00:45:28.800
yeah, I agree they they can
be a little bit of a pain,

605
00:45:28.880 --> 00:45:30.880
but just stay with them, stay
with them and use things that don't last

606
00:45:31.000 --> 00:45:35.360
very long. You might get some
some luck out of a pyretheran spray.

607
00:45:35.480 --> 00:45:38.119
The thing about pyretheran is it doesn't
last long. It's it's there for a

608
00:45:38.199 --> 00:45:44.400
day or two and then and then
it's gone. But in general, they

609
00:45:44.440 --> 00:45:50.880
are a challenge to deal with.
Okay, I appreciate your information on that.

610
00:45:51.039 --> 00:45:52.280
Thanks, all right, thank you
very much. I appreciate that.

611
00:45:52.320 --> 00:45:58.039
Called Diane. All right, you're
out in the Kingwood area humbold A task

612
00:45:58.079 --> 00:46:00.440
as seed a Porter Valley ranch New
Camp anywhere up there in the northeast.

613
00:46:00.880 --> 00:46:06.000
You've got two wonderful garden centers right
near you, and that would be Kingwood

614
00:46:06.000 --> 00:46:09.599
Garden Center which is on Stonehallow Drive
and Warren Southern Gardens which is on North

615
00:46:09.639 --> 00:46:15.480
Park Drive. They are just wonderful
places to find lots of plants. They

616
00:46:15.480 --> 00:46:19.239
have beautiful gift shops too. By
the way, they have the filling stations

617
00:46:19.280 --> 00:46:22.199
for your microlife and Nelson plant feud
jugs. They carry all the fertilizers we

618
00:46:22.239 --> 00:46:28.400
talk about here. They also have
full landscaping services available for the surrounding area

619
00:46:28.480 --> 00:46:31.480
right up there in Kingwood. So
whatever you need. Maybe you would like

620
00:46:31.679 --> 00:46:37.880
to have a container of flowers designed
and they can either do that and sell

621
00:46:37.920 --> 00:46:40.960
you a container of flowers or they
can actually show you how to do that

622
00:46:42.079 --> 00:46:46.119
yourself. Check them out Warren's Garden, Warren's Southern Gardens on North Park Kingwood

623
00:46:46.119 --> 00:46:51.000
Garden Center in Kingwood. Well,
you're listening to the garden line, We

624
00:46:51.039 --> 00:46:52.920
are going to take a little break
and come back. Ben you'll be first

625
00:46:53.000 --> 00:46:57.840
up if you'd like to be on
seven one three, two one two fifty

626
00:46:57.920 --> 00:47:07.960
eight seventy four the tweet top all
the day long up up and a song

627
00:47:08.320 --> 00:47:12.800
all the little birds on deep breath, sweet, don't do it. The

628
00:47:12.920 --> 00:47:20.519
Robin bull tweet well, good Father's
day morning, on a lovely Sunday morning.

629
00:47:20.920 --> 00:47:22.599
Got a little breeze out there.
I know the temperature is buy as

630
00:47:22.639 --> 00:47:25.840
good as it's gonna be today,
So good time to sneak out in the

631
00:47:25.880 --> 00:47:28.960
yard and get a little bit of
work done for it gets too hot,

632
00:47:29.000 --> 00:47:32.119
if you're inclined to do that.
If not, I think this afternoon would

633
00:47:32.119 --> 00:47:35.519
be a good time to get out. Maybe take Dad out and get to

634
00:47:35.719 --> 00:47:39.719
some places to shop for Dad,
Maybe let him pick out something that he

635
00:47:39.840 --> 00:47:44.119
enjoys it. Some of the ideas
we've been giving you for two days now

636
00:47:44.159 --> 00:47:46.679
here on garden Line. You know, if you're looking for a quality fertilizer

637
00:47:47.079 --> 00:47:51.599
for your summer fertilization, actually for
all year, but here we are in

638
00:47:51.679 --> 00:47:58.400
summer microlife. Green bag six two
four fits that bill. The six two

639
00:47:58.400 --> 00:48:01.280
four has that ratio of newt that
the grass needs. What it's how grass

640
00:48:01.320 --> 00:48:05.679
eats, that's what. That's the
ratio that it takes up in sixty four

641
00:48:06.679 --> 00:48:08.719
or three one two or four one
two kind of ratios is how grass takes

642
00:48:08.800 --> 00:48:14.679
up nutrients well with a microlife you
also want to include the purple bag green

643
00:48:14.679 --> 00:48:19.039
bag, Purple bag that's humates plus
in the purple bag concentrated compost. In

644
00:48:19.079 --> 00:48:22.960
a bag, you are feeding microbes. You're even also adding microbes. You're

645
00:48:22.960 --> 00:48:28.320
adding sixty three essential minerals in the
process. Microlife Fertilizer dot Com is where

646
00:48:28.320 --> 00:48:30.320
you go to find out where to
buy it. But I can tell you

647
00:48:30.360 --> 00:48:35.199
pretty much the places we talk about
all Kerry Microlife Microlife Fertilizer dot Com for

648
00:48:35.280 --> 00:48:38.559
a beautiful green yard and a nice
gradual feed through this hot summer season.

649
00:48:39.840 --> 00:48:43.960
I think it's time to head out
to tom Ball and we're going to visit

650
00:48:44.000 --> 00:48:47.400
with Ben. Hello. Ben,
Hey, how are you doing? Good

651
00:48:47.440 --> 00:48:55.480
morning? Yeah, what's the question
today? Ben? I had a question.

652
00:48:55.599 --> 00:49:00.480
I told my house to my son
or daughter in law and I'm living

653
00:49:00.480 --> 00:49:04.360
in a motor home now. Okay, so I don't I don't have my

654
00:49:04.400 --> 00:49:06.719
pond anymore, I don't have my
lan, I don't have my tree,

655
00:49:06.960 --> 00:49:09.360
all that stuff. But well,
I hope you have a tiny hanging basket

656
00:49:09.400 --> 00:49:14.559
hanging from the rear view mirror right
and taking it with you. That's what

657
00:49:14.599 --> 00:49:17.760
I'm asking about. It is actually
some plot of plants. I actually have

658
00:49:17.800 --> 00:49:23.079
a notepad with me right now because
I was I could, I could ask

659
00:49:23.119 --> 00:49:29.360
the neighbors and who cares. Yeah, there's a lot of neighbors around them

660
00:49:29.440 --> 00:49:34.679
have hanging plants on their awnings and
stuff like that. I was just wondering

661
00:49:34.760 --> 00:49:37.039
what's the best plant to put out
there that I don't have to pay a

662
00:49:37.039 --> 00:49:42.719
lot of attention to you, but
they stay alive despite me. So you're

663
00:49:42.719 --> 00:49:49.519
talking about you've parked the motor home
and did you say motor or mobile motor

664
00:49:49.519 --> 00:49:52.840
home? So you've parked the motor
home and you want some stuff to hang

665
00:49:52.880 --> 00:49:55.719
onto the awning. Is that what
you're thinking, correct? Okay, yeah,

666
00:49:55.760 --> 00:50:00.679
I got you. Well, Um, usually underneath a awning we have

667
00:50:00.760 --> 00:50:05.000
shade, right because the awning provides
it. But depending on where the plants

668
00:50:05.079 --> 00:50:07.159
located, it may be getting morning
sun, late day sun, you know,

669
00:50:07.199 --> 00:50:09.639
as it comes in from the side, so you kind of need to

670
00:50:09.639 --> 00:50:15.679
plant. Actually it's actually shaded the
entire day palm. Certain I just want

671
00:50:15.679 --> 00:50:17.360
to let you know that. Yeah, yeah, that's good. Well,

672
00:50:17.400 --> 00:50:22.039
when when you have a shady area
like that, you're gonna you're gonna not

673
00:50:22.119 --> 00:50:28.440
go wrong with something that is tolerant
of the of the warm temperatures outside,

674
00:50:28.440 --> 00:50:32.079
but also tolerant of the lack of
sunlight, and things like impatients are good

675
00:50:32.199 --> 00:50:37.880
that My hesitation with impatience is they're
very brittle, and I think moving them

676
00:50:37.880 --> 00:50:42.440
in and out and bouncing down the
road and stuff that is probably not going

677
00:50:42.480 --> 00:50:45.360
to hold up enough for you.
So I might switch towards some type of

678
00:50:45.360 --> 00:50:50.519
a trailing kind of vine like plant, and we have different things. They

679
00:50:50.519 --> 00:50:54.000
can tolerate the shade to a certain
degree, things like ivys and whatnot.

680
00:50:54.519 --> 00:50:58.760
Many examples of a little vining plants
that can take the shade that you could

681
00:50:58.840 --> 00:51:02.719
use. That would be that would
do well? Uh other types of shade

682
00:51:02.760 --> 00:51:07.519
loving go ahead? Would they?
Would they grow up the awning though,

683
00:51:07.599 --> 00:51:13.679
because I want want that So okay, so you're talking about something that's parked

684
00:51:14.000 --> 00:51:16.039
that's just there for long enough for
a plant to grow on the awning.

685
00:51:19.119 --> 00:51:22.519
No, not on the awning,
but just just to be pretty. That's

686
00:51:22.519 --> 00:51:25.840
all to be pretty, not to
grow up the awning like a vine or

687
00:51:25.840 --> 00:51:30.119
anything like that. I see,
I see, okay, yeah, I

688
00:51:30.119 --> 00:51:32.960
would. I would just focus on
things that trail. I think that is

689
00:51:32.960 --> 00:51:37.679
going to give you you know,
the most you can find the most pleasure

690
00:51:37.840 --> 00:51:40.360
and that kind of a plant and
that kind of growth. Uh them.

691
00:51:40.599 --> 00:51:45.719
There's something called wishbone flower that blooms
it's in that can take sign a little

692
00:51:45.719 --> 00:51:49.000
sign, or it can take a
part shade too. That'd be another one.

693
00:51:49.519 --> 00:51:52.840
UM trying to think of some other
examples of something that that might be

694
00:51:52.880 --> 00:52:00.440
good for that. That's a very
unusual question I had not had. That

695
00:52:00.599 --> 00:52:02.519
is. I mean, it's my
first time living in a motor home,

696
00:52:02.599 --> 00:52:07.559
so okay, well, just just
enjoy it. I mean that there's some

697
00:52:07.599 --> 00:52:12.320
beautiful, beautiful plants you want to
get away with, you know, some

698
00:52:12.360 --> 00:52:15.599
of the plants that we often would
put outside in the sun as well,

699
00:52:15.639 --> 00:52:20.320
I know, and milder weather than
this. The trailing petunias would be a

700
00:52:20.360 --> 00:52:27.199
really good choice. There's petunia.
There's a plant called Lobularia. It's a

701
00:52:27.320 --> 00:52:31.880
white stream as the series that you're
looking for, and lobularia has a little

702
00:52:31.880 --> 00:52:36.400
honey like fragrance. It's like a
lesson in the winter. It's essentially the

703
00:52:36.440 --> 00:52:39.760
same plant, but it's summer tolerant. The stream version is, so that

704
00:52:39.840 --> 00:52:42.920
may be something that you find.
I don't know if those are a few

705
00:52:42.960 --> 00:52:45.000
ideas. If I think of some
more as I go through the show,

706
00:52:45.039 --> 00:52:49.079
I'll pop up and mention them as
well. I appreciate you man, all

707
00:52:49.119 --> 00:52:52.880
right, thank you appreciate that very
much. Hey, if you're thinking about

708
00:52:52.960 --> 00:52:59.159
moving to a community, maybe it's
kind of retirement time. Del Web bills

709
00:52:59.320 --> 00:53:05.519
communities exactly for folks like retirees,
folks that are fifty five and better,

710
00:53:05.599 --> 00:53:08.719
that are active, that want a
lifestyle that is that is active and that's

711
00:53:08.760 --> 00:53:14.159
busy, and that would be the
Dellweb community. And there's one in Fullsher

712
00:53:14.400 --> 00:53:17.880
on FM three fifty nine, less
than two miles from downtown Fullsher that has

713
00:53:17.920 --> 00:53:22.159
a community garden in it that I'm
actually helping them put together. So not

714
00:53:22.239 --> 00:53:28.280
only do you have that amazing Dell
Weeb, the beautiful sidewalks through just the

715
00:53:28.320 --> 00:53:31.599
community, all the foliage and beauty
and everything around, all the activities that

716
00:53:31.719 --> 00:53:36.800
go on for lifestyle programs designed around
you, but now you also have a

717
00:53:36.800 --> 00:53:39.199
community garden. And I mean to
me, that would be a good place

718
00:53:39.480 --> 00:53:44.039
for any gardener to be right.
You can go to dellweb dot com slash

719
00:53:44.079 --> 00:53:46.360
Houston for more information or give M
a call to eight one four to five

720
00:53:46.480 --> 00:53:53.199
nine zero six zero nine and discover
that dellweb difference for yourself. Let's head

721
00:53:53.239 --> 00:53:59.119
out to Katie and we are going
to talk to Teresa. Hello, Teresa,

722
00:54:00.039 --> 00:54:02.519
good morning, sifted nice to talk
to you real quick. We have

723
00:54:02.559 --> 00:54:07.639
a hydranea plant that someone gave us
as a gift. It's in the small

724
00:54:07.679 --> 00:54:10.519
pot we've repotted at once. We
want to plant it in the ground.

725
00:54:10.800 --> 00:54:14.599
Is this the time to do it
now? Or should we wait till it

726
00:54:14.599 --> 00:54:19.199
cools off a little bit like in
the fall. Well, hydrange is going

727
00:54:19.280 --> 00:54:21.920
to be in a bright shade,
so it's not gonna be in the blazing

728
00:54:21.960 --> 00:54:25.199
sun. You could plant it now, it's just going to be very touching.

729
00:54:25.239 --> 00:54:29.519
Go with the watering. Hydranjea is
one heck of a prima donna.

730
00:54:29.599 --> 00:54:35.199
I mean if you yeah, they
dry out for inside or you know,

731
00:54:35.280 --> 00:54:37.440
in a window. They dry out
for a day and suddenly there's brown leaves

732
00:54:37.440 --> 00:54:40.519
all over the place. And they
don't like to be wet, they don't

733
00:54:40.519 --> 00:54:45.079
like to be saggy. No,
they need drainage. A raised bed full

734
00:54:45.079 --> 00:54:49.159
of composted organic matter a little on
the acidic side is usually best. So

735
00:54:49.239 --> 00:54:52.079
we need to raise like if it's
just one. We need to raise it

736
00:54:52.119 --> 00:54:54.239
a little bit. Well, I
mean it's this one plant. You don't

737
00:54:54.280 --> 00:54:59.159
really have a bed for this one
plant. But no, but it's we

738
00:54:59.159 --> 00:55:01.239
were going to put it in a
corner where we get the morning sun and

739
00:55:01.280 --> 00:55:05.679
then shade the rest of the day. That'd be good. I think you

740
00:55:05.679 --> 00:55:07.920
could do that. You could go
either way. I think it'd be just

741
00:55:07.960 --> 00:55:12.400
as hard, maybe keeping them alive
in a pot until fault to plant them

742
00:55:12.400 --> 00:55:15.880
out. It is. It's it's
a real struggle right now. We are

743
00:55:15.039 --> 00:55:19.000
we Yeah, I would, I
would do that for them. I might

744
00:55:19.119 --> 00:55:22.360
even give them a little bit of
a shade from the morning sun. Have

745
00:55:22.480 --> 00:55:24.719
they been in sun in the pot
or in a branch? Yeah, they

746
00:55:24.719 --> 00:55:29.400
were, and then we moved it. We didn't realize it wasn't supposed to

747
00:55:29.440 --> 00:55:31.440
have a lot of sun, or
we get the sun from the east to

748
00:55:31.480 --> 00:55:35.840
the west all day, or how
spaces in the wars makes them think they're

749
00:55:35.880 --> 00:55:39.280
growing in a forest and a forest
has rich or lots of organic matter soil.

750
00:55:40.639 --> 00:55:43.880
Okay, yeah, and put a
mulch around them. You don't want

751
00:55:43.880 --> 00:55:46.000
the soil heating up two one hundred
and twenty degrees on the sun bakes on

752
00:55:46.039 --> 00:55:51.320
it or anything. Also, again
I mentioned the acidic a little little bit

753
00:55:51.320 --> 00:55:54.519
of fertilizer, but go go slow
and go gradual with a fertilizer for acid

754
00:55:54.559 --> 00:55:59.920
loving plants, and then just with
the watering. Remember that when you plant

755
00:56:00.119 --> 00:56:04.559
them for the first three or four
weeks, they don't have the extensive roots

756
00:56:04.559 --> 00:56:07.840
system at all, and the roots
you're taking care of are mostly around the

757
00:56:07.840 --> 00:56:12.800
base of the plant. Okay,
okay, great. I hope to give

758
00:56:12.840 --> 00:56:15.920
that to my husband because he does
all the planting. I just watch and

759
00:56:16.119 --> 00:56:20.199
worry. But thank you. We
love your show, we love you being

760
00:56:20.280 --> 00:56:23.920
on and we miss Randy. But
we've really enjoyed watching listening to you in

761
00:56:23.920 --> 00:56:29.320
the morning Saturday and Sunday. I
appreciate that a lot of us face Randy.

762
00:56:29.440 --> 00:56:32.320
Thank you very much for the culture
reason. If you were looking for

763
00:56:32.360 --> 00:56:38.719
a place to get all the products
we talk about and all kinds of things

764
00:56:38.719 --> 00:56:43.760
for your home inside and out,
that would be Ace Hardware. Thirty nine

765
00:56:43.800 --> 00:56:46.880
Ace Hardware stores here in the Greater
Houston area. Where's your store? Go

766
00:56:46.920 --> 00:56:52.719
to Ace hardware dot com, click
on the store locator and put in your

767
00:56:52.800 --> 00:56:55.480
zip code wherever you however you want
to go about doing it. Find the

768
00:56:55.519 --> 00:57:00.280
store nearest you, and it's not
hard to find one here. You need

769
00:57:00.280 --> 00:57:02.559
barbecuing equipment, by the way,
what a great idea for dad today.

770
00:57:02.679 --> 00:57:07.440
Right if you need the standard hardware
things that we've all gone to hardware stores

771
00:57:07.480 --> 00:57:10.719
for years for it, they got
all of that. They carry the fertilizers

772
00:57:10.719 --> 00:57:15.119
we talk about, They have so
many other things that are beautiful for sprucing

773
00:57:15.239 --> 00:57:20.760
up, for decorating, for making
your home a really special place. Ace

774
00:57:21.079 --> 00:57:25.280
hardware dot Com find that store that's
the closest to you. I was talking

775
00:57:25.280 --> 00:57:30.599
about fragrant flowers a little bit ago, and I just in my mind kind

776
00:57:30.599 --> 00:57:34.599
of thinking off the cuff. I
was thinking about how there's there's plants that

777
00:57:34.679 --> 00:57:37.519
are I said, fragrant flowers,
fragrant plants. There's plants that are that

778
00:57:37.639 --> 00:57:43.159
have fragrant foliage, but you don't
necessarily smell the foliage just sitting by the

779
00:57:43.239 --> 00:57:46.440
plant. So that would be something
like mint. So whenever you rub against

780
00:57:46.519 --> 00:57:50.559
mint, you smell it when you
crush it. The scents in the air.

781
00:57:50.679 --> 00:57:53.559
One time we had some mint as
kind of a wild plant like a

782
00:57:53.639 --> 00:57:58.400
groundcover at a house we were in. And by the way, I don't

783
00:57:58.400 --> 00:58:01.519
recommend that it takes over the world. But every time I mowed through that

784
00:58:01.599 --> 00:58:06.440
area and mowed over the mint,
oh the next path of the mower,

785
00:58:06.840 --> 00:58:10.159
you just really enjoyed that beautiful,
beautiful fragrance that you have with mint.

786
00:58:10.920 --> 00:58:15.880
That's one a rosemary. Another one
you press against it. It just smells

787
00:58:15.960 --> 00:58:20.159
really nice. We had one of
the decorative Rosemary's indoors. My daughter would

788
00:58:20.239 --> 00:58:22.039
hug it and run through the house
when she was a little kid, one

789
00:58:22.079 --> 00:58:25.679
of my daughters, And I mean
it just Rosemary went through the house with

790
00:58:25.679 --> 00:58:30.599
her as she ran along Copper Canyon. Daisy another one. That one is

791
00:58:30.639 --> 00:58:32.760
one that's got a very sharp smell. Some people like it, some people

792
00:58:32.800 --> 00:58:37.400
don't. I compare it to I
would say a combination of citrus and and

793
00:58:37.639 --> 00:58:42.639
lime. If you can imagine citrus
and lime. Hey, if you're thinking

794
00:58:42.639 --> 00:58:45.199
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795
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797
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798
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799
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800
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Landsdown Moody, LM tractor dot com. Good morning, Good Sunday morning,

801
00:59:25.639 --> 00:59:30.320
Good Father's Day morning, Happy Father's
Day. All the dad's out there.

802
00:59:30.480 --> 00:59:35.840
I hope you're having a good day, good day planned with family. This

803
00:59:36.000 --> 00:59:38.559
is um. You know, one
of the greatest blessings of my life has

804
00:59:38.599 --> 00:59:45.280
been being a father. It m
you know, it's when when the doctor

805
00:59:45.360 --> 00:59:52.920
hands you this little living creature that
is now part of your family. The

806
00:59:52.079 --> 00:59:58.760
wonder, the joy, the overwhelmed
feeling like, oh my gosh, I

807
00:59:58.840 --> 01:00:00.960
don't know anything about how you do
this? How do you do this?

808
01:00:01.559 --> 01:00:06.000
Uh? And it just it's a
it's a super wonderful thing. I remember

809
01:00:06.039 --> 01:00:08.280
as kids are growing up. Uh, you know, there's the first time

810
01:00:08.360 --> 01:00:13.119
they make eye contact and giggle or
something like that, and the first words

811
01:00:13.159 --> 01:00:16.280
and the first steps. There's always
first and you're always entering another stage and

812
01:00:16.440 --> 01:00:21.880
you always feel unprepared. I can
tell you that for sure. I remember

813
01:00:22.440 --> 01:00:31.199
when each daughter began to date.
Oh boy, I well, I'm gonna

814
01:00:31.280 --> 01:00:34.480
let that one go. I don't
know where to go from you if I

815
01:00:34.559 --> 01:00:37.559
start talking, I may say anyway, you get the idea. For a

816
01:00:37.679 --> 01:00:42.480
dad, it's like, what who
are you? What do you want?

817
01:00:43.760 --> 01:00:47.239
Let me see your resume, call
the FBI. We're gonna check you out

818
01:00:47.239 --> 01:00:52.079
and make sure everything's okay. Yeah, being a dad it's a fun ride.

819
01:00:52.159 --> 01:00:54.920
It's an exciting ride, never a
boring moment, right, So and

820
01:00:54.960 --> 01:01:00.280
then and then when they grow up, then there's a whole new thing comes

821
01:01:00.320 --> 01:01:02.639
along. I remember when my kids
were young. I remember that I could

822
01:01:02.719 --> 01:01:06.280
I ruled the room when it came
to jokes. I mean, I was

823
01:01:06.360 --> 01:01:09.960
funny. And I don't remember what
year it was, probably age what seven,

824
01:01:10.719 --> 01:01:15.440
something like that or ten, So
definitely about ten somewhere in there.

825
01:01:15.679 --> 01:01:19.719
Your jokes are like I roll or
jokes right, and we've made we've made

826
01:01:19.719 --> 01:01:22.880
an institution out of the dad joke. So many, so many good funny

827
01:01:22.920 --> 01:01:28.079
dadger Maybe we should have had dad
jokes today for Father's David. Yeah,

828
01:01:28.119 --> 01:01:30.440
those of you who are dads know
what I'm talking about. Those of you

829
01:01:30.800 --> 01:01:34.480
or kids know what I'm talking about. Anyway, Happy Father's Day. I

830
01:01:34.480 --> 01:01:38.599
hope you're having a great day.
We're talking about fragrant plants here on the

831
01:01:38.800 --> 01:01:42.800
garden Line Radio show. By the
way, the phone number seven one three

832
01:01:43.079 --> 01:01:46.519
two one two five eight seven four
seven one three two one two fifty eight

833
01:01:46.559 --> 01:01:52.480
seventy four. I mentioned the plants
that have fragrant foliage that you rub the

834
01:01:52.480 --> 01:01:57.320
foliage and it just smells good.
You know. There are scented geraniums that

835
01:01:57.360 --> 01:02:00.719
are that fall into that category.
There are many kinds of plants that fall

836
01:02:00.760 --> 01:02:04.320
into that category, just to be
able to sit and enjoy. Maybe it's

837
01:02:04.320 --> 01:02:08.239
a little container plant on an outdoor
sitting area, underneath an arbor or out

838
01:02:08.800 --> 01:02:12.639
you know, in a sunny spot, morning sun, something like that.

839
01:02:13.000 --> 01:02:15.159
Those are all good plants. Then
there's the plants that have fragrant flowers.

840
01:02:15.159 --> 01:02:20.000
And again I would like you to
give me a call if you have a

841
01:02:20.039 --> 01:02:27.719
favorite memory of a scent something from
growing up, a plant scent that you

842
01:02:27.960 --> 01:02:30.800
really remember and I've always enjoyed,
or maybe it's a current just a current

843
01:02:30.840 --> 01:02:35.559
favorite. What are some of the
plants that you like the most. And

844
01:02:35.599 --> 01:02:42.480
there are some amazing plants out there
there, I mean, just absolute unbelievable

845
01:02:42.639 --> 01:02:45.280
fragrance. I'll just get us started
with a couple here. One of them

846
01:02:45.639 --> 01:02:52.400
that is just well known as gardenia, Gardenia, the fragrance is just heavenly.

847
01:02:52.599 --> 01:02:54.920
You know, there are a lot
of fragrances that some people like and

848
01:02:55.039 --> 01:02:59.599
some don't care for as much.
Guardenia is just a win win, I

849
01:02:59.639 --> 01:03:02.719
mean, it is beautiful. The
fragrance of those plants sometimes can be a

850
01:03:02.760 --> 01:03:08.639
little bit challenged to grow a gardenia. They have their particular desires. They

851
01:03:08.679 --> 01:03:10.880
want to be on the acidic side. They want to be on a very

852
01:03:10.960 --> 01:03:15.639
compost acidic soil. They want to
be in a bright area, but not

853
01:03:15.960 --> 01:03:21.400
necessarily blazing sun all day. They
won't have adequate water, not dry out,

854
01:03:21.519 --> 01:03:23.280
you get the idea. But guardinia, oh my gosh, what an

855
01:03:23.320 --> 01:03:28.239
awesome, awesome plant. Well let's
head out. We're gonna go to Kingwood

856
01:03:28.360 --> 01:03:31.519
and we're gonna visit with Joe this
morning. Good morning Joe, Good morning

857
01:03:31.639 --> 01:03:37.639
Skip, and happy Father's Day to
you. Thank you. A quick question

858
01:03:37.760 --> 01:03:44.000
on the mosquito dunk granules that you've
talked about. I have a couple of

859
01:03:44.360 --> 01:03:50.199
small flower pots that have catch basins
underneath them, and how much of the

860
01:03:50.400 --> 01:03:53.599
granules should I put in those little
small catch basins. You need to read

861
01:03:53.639 --> 01:03:57.639
the label, but it's not gonna
take much. That is a very tiny

862
01:03:57.679 --> 01:04:01.760
amount of water, you know,
just a I don't know. I always

863
01:04:01.760 --> 01:04:05.280
say like a dozen granules or something
in a basin is probably way more than

864
01:04:05.440 --> 01:04:10.440
enough. But read the label to
tell you, you know, they cover

865
01:04:10.559 --> 01:04:14.199
a certain amount of area. But
the goal is the granules are small,

866
01:04:14.280 --> 01:04:19.400
that isolve pretty quick and you get
all that bacillustheringensis that's in that's the disease

867
01:04:19.639 --> 01:04:25.599
of the mosquito larva. You get
it all through the water and so that

868
01:04:25.800 --> 01:04:30.480
that's pretty simple. But as far
as how many, I've never thought about

869
01:04:30.519 --> 01:04:35.559
on that small of a scale before. When the water evaporates relatively quickly in

870
01:04:35.639 --> 01:04:40.360
those pots, that do you have
to reapply it in every time you water

871
01:04:40.519 --> 01:04:43.199
the plants. Well, it depends
on how long the water is going to

872
01:04:43.239 --> 01:04:45.960
be there. I mean, mosquito
is all they need is you know,

873
01:04:45.559 --> 01:04:48.880
a week or two to lay the
eggs of the larva and come out as

874
01:04:48.920 --> 01:04:53.320
adults. Now, if you're if
it's drying up after you know, five

875
01:04:53.440 --> 01:04:57.599
or six days, then you don't
need the mosquito dunk stuff in there.

876
01:04:59.000 --> 01:05:02.559
So if it eyes up within a
couple of days, in need. No,

877
01:05:02.719 --> 01:05:05.280
not at all, No, not
at all. Mosquitoes cannot do a

878
01:05:05.360 --> 01:05:10.079
life cycle in that amount of time, not even close. Yeah, and

879
01:05:10.880 --> 01:05:15.480
after you opened the bag of these
granules, how long do they remain effective?

880
01:05:16.960 --> 01:05:19.760
Um, that's a good question.
It would all be about storage,

881
01:05:19.800 --> 01:05:25.119
I would say, so definitely want
to store something like that indoors and air

882
01:05:25.159 --> 01:05:27.960
conditioning. You get the most life
out of it. I'm gonna have to

883
01:05:28.039 --> 01:05:31.079
check on that. I've never thought
in those terms, but I know that

884
01:05:31.239 --> 01:05:35.239
the conditions that are stored in are
the night and day difference in how long

885
01:05:35.280 --> 01:05:41.280
it's gonna last. Okay, Skip, thanks for your help again. All

886
01:05:41.360 --> 01:05:44.880
right, Joe, thank you very
much. I appreciate that call very much.

887
01:05:46.239 --> 01:05:50.960
Let's we're gonna head out to South. Tell you what I'm gonna Jeff,

888
01:05:50.960 --> 01:05:54.400
I'm gonna hold off. Sounds like
we may be visiting for a little

889
01:05:54.400 --> 01:05:57.639
while. We'll come to you when
we when we come right back from break.

890
01:05:58.280 --> 01:06:02.119
Talking about some fragrant plants, I
want to mentioned Guardinia as being heavenly.

891
01:06:02.599 --> 01:06:06.760
Another one of my favorite is white
butterfly ginger. There are some other

892
01:06:06.880 --> 01:06:13.079
fragrant Hidichium gingers butterfly gingers, but
the white butterfly, the old white butterflies,

893
01:06:13.119 --> 01:06:15.840
and one I always grow it,
just really for fragrance. It really

894
01:06:15.920 --> 01:06:20.719
fragrant. When my second daughter was
born, no third daughter was born,

895
01:06:20.920 --> 01:06:28.719
I took a white butterfly ginger bloom
into the hospital room and we had nurses

896
01:06:28.800 --> 01:06:31.760
coming in from the hallway tracking the
smell. What is that fragrant? I

897
01:06:31.800 --> 01:06:35.519
mean literally it filled the hospital room
and it wafted out when they walked down

898
01:06:35.559 --> 01:06:41.440
the hallways of the hospital. They
could smell white butterfly ginger, super superplant.

899
01:06:41.760 --> 01:06:44.760
Loves to be around here. It
takes quite a bit of sun.

900
01:06:44.840 --> 01:06:47.400
It's probably one of the most sun
tolerant groups of gingers that we have.

901
01:06:48.360 --> 01:06:55.280
I keep mine in definitely late day
shade. This full blazing sun. They

902
01:06:55.320 --> 01:06:58.239
can take it, but it's pretty
tough. But you don't want too much

903
01:06:58.280 --> 01:07:00.519
shade, or white butterfly ginger won't
bloom for you. A little bit of

904
01:07:00.559 --> 01:07:04.079
shade's just fine. Hey, we're
gonna take a break seven one three two

905
01:07:04.119 --> 01:07:08.800
one two fifty eight seventy four.
Give Josh a call and we will be

906
01:07:09.159 --> 01:07:12.159
visiting with you soon. And Jeff, you're the first stop after break.

907
01:07:21.840 --> 01:07:35.719
Everyone is lucky. Well, good
morning, you're listening to garden Line.

908
01:07:35.880 --> 01:07:41.760
Today is Father's Day, Father's Day
Sunday. Welcome all the fathers out there.

909
01:07:41.840 --> 01:07:45.559
Happy Father's Day. Hope you're having
a really really good one. We're

910
01:07:45.599 --> 01:07:48.360
gonna head out to Southwest Houston.
Jeff, thanks for waiting, and we're

911
01:07:48.400 --> 01:07:54.000
gonna see what's going on with you. You're welcome. Happy Father's Day,

912
01:07:54.360 --> 01:07:58.519
Skip, thank you and you as
well. I've got a good dad joke

913
01:07:58.639 --> 01:08:01.880
for your kids to roll their eyes, okay, should it should be right

914
01:08:02.000 --> 01:08:05.440
up your alley too. What do
you get when a tree goes poop?

915
01:08:06.880 --> 01:08:15.039
A tree goes poop? I don't
know. Number two pencils? Oh my

916
01:08:15.239 --> 01:08:21.680
gosh. Oh that's classic. Yeah, that's that's writing, your writing,

917
01:08:21.760 --> 01:08:27.640
your wheel. Oh yeah, yeah, that's right, all right. They

918
01:08:27.680 --> 01:08:30.039
should roll their eyes real good that
if they know what a number two pencil

919
01:08:30.239 --> 01:08:35.479
is. Yeah, well, that's
that's good. So let's see what else.

920
01:08:35.479 --> 01:08:39.760
I think you had a plant question
as well, right, I did.

921
01:08:39.920 --> 01:08:43.720
Yesterday you were talking about peppers and
getting them started for the fall.

922
01:08:44.039 --> 01:08:48.960
Um. I got this California wonder
Bell pepper that I absolutely love, and

923
01:08:49.039 --> 01:08:54.479
I got them started late and they
each you know, each plant produced two

924
01:08:54.600 --> 01:08:59.880
or three peppers and they're really good
size or delicious. If I keep these

925
01:09:00.079 --> 01:09:03.520
things alive, which I can.
I got rainwater system and I've got you

926
01:09:03.600 --> 01:09:08.399
know, if I keep them alive
through the summer, will they reproduce in

927
01:09:08.479 --> 01:09:12.800
the fall or do I need to
replant? They will produce very well in

928
01:09:12.880 --> 01:09:17.479
the fall. Just take summer to
take good care of them, moderate amount

929
01:09:17.479 --> 01:09:21.159
of nutrition to keep them growing.
Get as big of a plant as you

930
01:09:21.279 --> 01:09:25.640
can, because when fall comes,
that's when the pepper starts setting well again,

931
01:09:26.119 --> 01:09:29.960
and you're gonna you're gonna be able
to u Well, great, that's

932
01:09:30.039 --> 01:09:33.720
good news. I've been using the
fish fertilizer. It seems to be working

933
01:09:33.840 --> 01:09:38.960
for me. I can't overfertilize it
and kill them. Well that's good.

934
01:09:39.079 --> 01:09:42.600
Yep, they're not going to that
works. Well. Yeah, there's a

935
01:09:42.640 --> 01:09:45.960
lot of good fertilizers out there that'll
that'll they'll do real well and and keep

936
01:09:46.000 --> 01:09:50.279
those things going just graduating. That's
good news because I've got about fifteen of

937
01:09:50.359 --> 01:09:55.000
them, and I really, I
really want to take advantage of getting some

938
01:09:55.399 --> 01:09:59.920
some more good peppers out of these
things, because they're they're a great pepper.

939
01:10:00.119 --> 01:10:02.039
That variety. Yeah, that's a
great one. Yeah, it's a

940
01:10:02.199 --> 01:10:06.319
it's an over a well known I've
just been famous a long time. Yeah,

941
01:10:06.399 --> 01:10:11.159
there's so many varieties now out,
I tell you, but that's one

942
01:10:11.199 --> 01:10:15.600
of the old standards we compare things
against. Well, thanks, I appreciate

943
01:10:15.800 --> 01:10:18.520
a happy bathers. Thanks for the
dog joke, our dad joke too.

944
01:10:18.560 --> 01:10:25.119
I appreciate that You're welcome our phone
number seven one three two one two fifty

945
01:10:25.199 --> 01:10:30.199
eight seventy four seven one three two
one two five eight seven four. So

946
01:10:30.479 --> 01:10:32.640
what are we talking about this morning? Well, I'm kind of on a

947
01:10:32.880 --> 01:10:38.640
let's talk fragrant plants kick saying if
you guys have any favorite plants that are

948
01:10:38.840 --> 01:10:42.319
fragrant, that's what we're aiming for. What are the favorite what are the

949
01:10:42.399 --> 01:10:46.239
memories that come back from fragrant plants. I grew up in South Texas,

950
01:10:46.359 --> 01:10:50.520
just south San Antonio, a little
tongue called Jordenton, and up all the

951
01:10:50.600 --> 01:10:55.359
way up in through the hill country. We had a plant Texas Mountain Laurel.

952
01:10:55.439 --> 01:10:57.680
And you have them over here too. I mean they can grow here.

953
01:10:57.960 --> 01:11:00.319
You just have to put them on
a very well drained mound here in

954
01:11:00.399 --> 01:11:04.600
Houston because they don't like a swamp. They want definitely good drainage, which

955
01:11:04.680 --> 01:11:10.840
is what you get on the limestone
hills of Central Texas. But Texas Mountain

956
01:11:10.920 --> 01:11:15.119
Laurel has a gaudy fragrance. If
you can call a fragrance gaudy, then

957
01:11:15.199 --> 01:11:18.279
I think that would be what I
would call Texas Mount Laurel. It's that

958
01:11:18.520 --> 01:11:24.960
great bubblegum smell, remember the super
bubble, great bubblegum. Just a gaudy

959
01:11:25.039 --> 01:11:29.279
grape fragrance. That's it. And
boy when it blooms, I mean it

960
01:11:29.520 --> 01:11:32.399
fills the air with that fragrance and
there it's a beautiful plant. I love

961
01:11:32.479 --> 01:11:39.920
the beautiful blooms. It's almost like
a bush shrub slash tree version of blue

962
01:11:39.960 --> 01:11:42.800
bonnets. That's what I think of
when I see the blooms. It kind

963
01:11:42.840 --> 01:11:46.399
of a spike bloom with kind of
a bluish purple flower to it. Very

964
01:11:46.439 --> 01:11:50.159
pretty, very pretty Texas Mountain Laurel. That would be one of my memories

965
01:11:50.720 --> 01:11:55.880
growing up and enjoying that fragrance.
We had another thing, and this was

966
01:11:56.039 --> 01:12:00.079
brush down in South Texas. It
is called whitebrush, and whitebrush is the

967
01:12:00.159 --> 01:12:05.079
genus on Loisia, and whitebrush was
really popular with beekeepers for making honey.

968
01:12:05.119 --> 01:12:09.520
It makes a real clear honey,
nice honey. But there's a plant,

969
01:12:09.680 --> 01:12:15.119
it's a Loisia genus, a Loysia
regatta, and it is a sweet almond

970
01:12:15.199 --> 01:12:16.680
bush. That's what we call it. Now they get kind of large.

971
01:12:16.840 --> 01:12:20.560
They're not just a little compact version. We need someone to develop a compact

972
01:12:20.680 --> 01:12:27.720
version. But they put a sweet
almond fragrance in the air. To me,

973
01:12:27.800 --> 01:12:31.520
it's kind of a vanilla like fragrance
in the air that is just unbelievable.

974
01:12:31.840 --> 01:12:34.399
So when you're planting these kinds of
things, like if it's a summer

975
01:12:34.439 --> 01:12:41.159
bloomer like sweet almond, is the
prevailing wind typically in summers from the southwest,

976
01:12:41.640 --> 01:12:45.720
and so you would want to put
it maybe on the southwest or southwest

977
01:12:45.800 --> 01:12:48.640
southwest side of the of a patio
where you would sit so you can go

978
01:12:48.720 --> 01:12:56.159
out and enjoy that fragrance. That's
really beautiful. There's there's many others.

979
01:12:56.359 --> 01:12:59.159
I'd love to hear your favorites,
but give us a call seven one,

980
01:12:59.319 --> 01:13:03.359
three two into five eight seven four. We'll talk about fragrances as well.

981
01:13:03.960 --> 01:13:09.640
Uh. Also, I will tolerate
dad jokes as long as you know you

982
01:13:09.840 --> 01:13:14.039
keep it clean. I'd like to
stay in the air. But one of

983
01:13:14.119 --> 01:13:17.079
my one of my favorite dad jokes
is, uh, if a child refuses

984
01:13:17.520 --> 01:13:25.039
to take a nap or they resisting
arrest. But I need a josh,

985
01:13:25.119 --> 01:13:28.680
I need a soundtrack, I guess, or canned laughter in the background,

986
01:13:28.880 --> 01:13:32.760
a rim shot. Thank you,
thank you for for jokes telling them into

987
01:13:32.800 --> 01:13:35.880
a debt dead room. Thank you, thank you. I've been here all

988
01:13:35.920 --> 01:13:40.439
week. I'll be here all week. All right, let's talk some more

989
01:13:40.439 --> 01:13:45.600
about fragrance um. The Another fragrant
plant that I that I enjoy a lot

990
01:13:46.079 --> 01:13:53.399
is the um a lissum. A
lissum is the plant we grow in the

991
01:13:53.479 --> 01:13:58.479
winter time, and it will take
some heat. They've developed a lissum into

992
01:13:58.560 --> 01:14:02.319
a form. It's a listam is
the genus Lobularia, and I refer to

993
01:14:02.399 --> 01:14:06.000
this new plant as labularia. It's
just sort of a way of separating it

994
01:14:06.119 --> 01:14:12.439
from winter lissum. But a labulary
a white stream series, the white stream,

995
01:14:13.039 --> 01:14:15.000
there's a couple of other series like
that. It looks just like a

996
01:14:15.079 --> 01:14:18.680
lism because it is a lissum.
But a lissum has a honey fragrance.

997
01:14:18.800 --> 01:14:21.000
Now, if you just have one
plant, it's not gonna fill the yard

998
01:14:21.079 --> 01:14:24.520
with honey fragrance. But if you
have a bunch of it, like I

999
01:14:24.680 --> 01:14:28.680
was at at the Antique rosenpur In
one time, walking down a walkway and

1000
01:14:28.800 --> 01:14:31.159
it was lined with a lissum and
oh my gosh, you could really smell

1001
01:14:31.239 --> 01:14:33.680
it. You could enjoy it.
So if you were sitting and you had

1002
01:14:33.760 --> 01:14:38.520
some maybe spilling over the sides of
a pot, it's a plant that sort

1003
01:14:38.560 --> 01:14:42.560
of trails slow, sort of like
a lava flow in terms of trailing over

1004
01:14:42.640 --> 01:14:45.279
the sides of the pot. You
can put that close by where you're sitting

1005
01:14:45.319 --> 01:14:48.399
and enjoy the fragrance. And a
lot of the old time petunias are the

1006
01:14:48.439 --> 01:14:56.239
same way. They have that ability
to provide a wonderful little fragrance. I

1007
01:14:56.399 --> 01:14:59.600
love to talk about our feed story
if you if you are in the Mountain

1008
01:14:59.720 --> 01:15:03.520
bell View area on east side of
Houston, if you're in the Mountain Bellevue

1009
01:15:03.560 --> 01:15:08.319
area, you need to know about
Texas Feedstop. Brian and Hope Rhodes,

1010
01:15:08.560 --> 01:15:15.399
the owners of Texas Feedstop, have
created that perfect true old time feed store

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01:15:15.720 --> 01:15:18.039
feel out there. You know,
they carry the bags out to you teenagers

1012
01:15:18.119 --> 01:15:23.399
from the community. You know,
they're really good at supporting the community as

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01:15:23.479 --> 01:15:28.520
well, including jobs for young people
out there. But you get customer service

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01:15:28.680 --> 01:15:30.479
like you would hope to have and
expect to have. By the way,

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01:15:30.560 --> 01:15:35.479
it's at thirty four North Highway one
forty six and Mont Bellevue, So that's

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01:15:35.560 --> 01:15:40.199
just a little bit north of I
ten. If you live in Baytown,

1017
01:15:40.439 --> 01:15:44.600
here's your local hometown feed stop,
Texas Feed Stop and Mountain Bellevue. All

1018
01:15:44.840 --> 01:15:46.760
all the fertilizers I talk about,
all the stuff that we talk about on

1019
01:15:46.840 --> 01:15:53.479
Guardline, they're going to carry at
the Texas Feedstop. We are getting close

1020
01:15:53.600 --> 01:15:58.600
to taking a break here. I've
got a couple of calls on Kay and

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01:15:58.760 --> 01:16:01.399
Paul. We will be getting to
you very quick after we come back to

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01:16:01.479 --> 01:16:04.680
break. If you'd like to give
us a call seven one three two one

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01:16:04.800 --> 01:16:10.199
two fifty eight seventy four seven one
three two one two five eight seven four.

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01:16:10.479 --> 01:16:15.079
If you've got a favorite favorite fragrance
memory, let me hear about it.

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01:16:15.119 --> 01:16:16.079
If you've got a good dad joke, I'll listen to that too.

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01:16:17.560 --> 01:16:21.079
You've been listening to garden Line,
and we love talking to our callers,

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01:16:21.119 --> 01:16:26.880
and we love talking about plants.
This is your opportunity to call and ask

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01:16:27.000 --> 01:16:30.720
questions. I know a lot of
folks listen but don't call. Maybe they

1029
01:16:30.840 --> 01:16:33.239
just feel like you know I don't
want to be on the air. What

1030
01:16:33.319 --> 01:16:36.880
if I say something stupid or whatever. Don't worry about that. We'll walk

1031
01:16:36.960 --> 01:16:42.680
you through it. Let's get whatever
kind of questions you have answered. There'll

1032
01:16:42.680 --> 01:16:45.840
be other people that have the questions
you have. Believe it or not that

1033
01:16:45.039 --> 01:16:48.640
is true. And here's my favorite
example. Even if you call and say,

1034
01:16:49.359 --> 01:16:53.119
let's see when I plant a plant, does a greenside go up or

1035
01:16:53.199 --> 01:16:57.960
down? Well, there'll be some
other people that might be at that level

1036
01:16:58.039 --> 01:17:00.359
as well. So I worry about
that. Don't worry about stupid questions.

1037
01:17:00.439 --> 01:17:03.840
I'll worry about the stupid answers.
How about that. We're gonna be back

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01:17:03.920 --> 01:17:06.920
real soon. I hope you hang
around for us. For the next hour,

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01:17:08.039 --> 01:17:11.399
the eight o'clock hour, we have
a special guest, special guest from

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01:17:11.560 --> 01:17:19.439
Star of Hope Mission katrh Garden Line
does not necessarily endorse any of the products

1041
01:17:19.560 --> 01:17:27.720
or services advertised on this program.
Welcome to KTRH Garden Line with Skip Rictor.

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01:17:28.079 --> 01:17:45.600
So please just watching Good Morning,
Good Sunday Morning, Father's Day Morning,

1043
01:17:45.880 --> 01:17:48.279
Happy Father's Date. All the dad's
out there. You're listening to Garden

1044
01:17:48.319 --> 01:17:51.119
Line. I'm your host, Skip
Richter, and we are here to answer

1045
01:17:51.199 --> 01:17:54.840
your gardening calls. I've got a
special guest coming up in just a bit

1046
01:17:54.920 --> 01:17:58.319
here from Star of Hope Mission,
and we are going to tell you some

1047
01:17:58.439 --> 01:18:01.359
things that I am sure you probably
don't know about Star of Hope. First,

1048
01:18:01.439 --> 01:18:04.840
let's head out real quick. We're
gonna go to pair Land and talk

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01:18:04.880 --> 01:18:08.760
to Kay. Hello, Kay,
good morning, Good morning, Skip.

1050
01:18:08.880 --> 01:18:13.359
Thank you for taking my call,
and Happy Father's Day. You're welcome.

1051
01:18:14.039 --> 01:18:15.840
I talked to you a couple of
weeks ago about this big long bed I

1052
01:18:15.960 --> 01:18:20.520
have in my backyard that was taken
over with Virginia buttonweed and bermid grass.

1053
01:18:20.960 --> 01:18:27.479
I've gotten most of it pulled out
myself, away from my existing plants.

1054
01:18:27.560 --> 01:18:32.600
I had eleven plants, hibiscus and
blue plumbago, and they're two left,

1055
01:18:32.680 --> 01:18:41.000
one hibiscus and one blue plumbago that
survived the freeze. They were planted late

1056
01:18:41.119 --> 01:18:44.600
last fall, so I think they
just didn't have time to get their roots

1057
01:18:44.800 --> 01:18:50.760
established against the freeze. Anyway,
right now, I've gotten some round up.

1058
01:18:50.920 --> 01:18:56.439
Is it too hot now to use
round up? Or can I use

1059
01:18:56.520 --> 01:19:00.720
it on the existing weeds that are
away from the good plan. You can

1060
01:19:00.840 --> 01:19:02.239
use it on the weeds, don't
pump up the sprayer too much. You

1061
01:19:02.279 --> 01:19:06.000
don't want to create a miss you're
on course droplets because it will drift and

1062
01:19:06.199 --> 01:19:11.359
get on your good plants. And
it's a little breeze breezy out there.

1063
01:19:11.640 --> 01:19:14.640
It's breezy early in the morning.
Sometimes it's kind of hard to find a

1064
01:19:14.720 --> 01:19:17.079
time on the wednesnight blowing. I
would use a wiper applicator to just wipe

1065
01:19:17.119 --> 01:19:20.159
it on the button weed and that
way you don't have it flying through the

1066
01:19:20.239 --> 01:19:24.720
air at all. I think I've
got too much to do that. It

1067
01:19:24.800 --> 01:19:28.439
would take me all day. Oh
wow, Okay, Well it's a forty

1068
01:19:28.479 --> 01:19:30.720
foot bed. It's it's pretty long, and it's got a lot of weeds

1069
01:19:30.760 --> 01:19:38.199
in it. Okay, um,
yeah, that's okay, that's that's fine,

1070
01:19:38.439 --> 01:19:42.880
Thank you all very much. Is
it too? Is get This bed

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01:19:43.000 --> 01:19:47.560
gets about five to six hours of
hot sun midday sun? Is that too

1072
01:19:47.680 --> 01:19:53.239
much for hibiscus? They're the blue
plant. Well they're both blooming real good

1073
01:19:53.439 --> 01:19:57.840
right now and looking good, the
two of them. Hibiscus and plumbago both

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01:19:57.920 --> 01:20:00.880
can take sun. Great. Okay, thank you, and have a great

1075
01:20:00.920 --> 01:20:06.600
day, you bet you two.
Let's head out to Troy, Alabama and

1076
01:20:06.760 --> 01:20:11.279
talk to Paul, Paul, are
you really in the state of Alabama?

1077
01:20:12.399 --> 01:20:15.720
You got it all right? Main
drag to plant in my city beach.

1078
01:20:16.239 --> 01:20:20.279
Welcome to garden line. What's up? Oh, let's go with gardenia,

1079
01:20:20.359 --> 01:20:27.680
sweet shrub and honeysuckle. Oh,
guardenya, sweet shrub and honeysuckle. Yeah,

1080
01:20:27.840 --> 01:20:32.439
the old yellow and white honeysuckle.
What when you say sweet shrub,

1081
01:20:32.640 --> 01:20:35.880
describe that to me? What are
you talking about? The shrub with sweet

1082
01:20:35.960 --> 01:20:42.079
fresh grip bush that used to the
old folks headed a long fence rose.

1083
01:20:42.520 --> 01:20:45.760
Yes, once you drove in you
could smell it. My neighbor's got one

1084
01:20:45.840 --> 01:20:49.000
of them. It's got a little
pink flower that smells when they the whole

1085
01:20:49.079 --> 01:20:53.960
plants. Women, you can smell
it. Not as strong as a gardenia,

1086
01:20:54.039 --> 01:20:57.359
but it is great. Wow.
All right, that's gut's good.

1087
01:20:57.479 --> 01:20:59.960
I like that. I'll make a
note of that when I'm at the check

1088
01:21:00.159 --> 01:21:05.600
that out any other What what I
hear? Rose soil? I've never seen

1089
01:21:05.680 --> 01:21:10.079
a bag with rose soil. And
what's the mix of rose though? Rose

1090
01:21:10.079 --> 01:21:15.239
soil is a composted mix that has
been screened and blended to where you you

1091
01:21:15.479 --> 01:21:20.159
have the ideal internal drainage. But
it still has the ability to hold water.

1092
01:21:20.399 --> 01:21:26.079
It's it's not as heavy in terms
of mucky, you know, density,

1093
01:21:26.159 --> 01:21:29.000
as maybe a potting soil would be. So it's going to provide a

1094
01:21:29.039 --> 01:21:31.800
little bit better aeration and drainage,
especially when we get a little bit too

1095
01:21:31.880 --> 01:21:38.399
much rain. Say, no peat
moss in I don't think any rose soils,

1096
01:21:38.600 --> 01:21:41.720
true rose soils, are gonna have
peat moss in them. I could

1097
01:21:41.800 --> 01:21:43.760
be wrong about that. I'm not
aware of any that do, and I

1098
01:21:43.800 --> 01:21:46.399
would be really surprised if they did. No problem. I just notice out

1099
01:21:46.439 --> 01:21:51.119
here where you go they got stacks
of peat moss. That's right. What

1100
01:21:51.359 --> 01:21:56.800
about oak leaves? Are they bad
to put in a flower bed? They're

1101
01:21:56.880 --> 01:22:00.760
not. You can use them as
mulch. I would mix them in the

1102
01:22:00.840 --> 01:22:03.479
soil without grinding them up a little
bit and maybe composting them some. I'm

1103
01:22:03.520 --> 01:22:10.279
loving them age a while, but
they're just fine. One more question product

1104
01:22:10.560 --> 01:22:15.840
ms M, Yes, what do
you know about it? H MSM is

1105
01:22:16.159 --> 01:22:23.039
a herbicide that uses a post emergent
I believe there's MSMA and MSM. I'm

1106
01:22:23.039 --> 01:22:25.840
gonna have to hang on just say
it. I think, well, here's

1107
01:22:25.880 --> 01:22:29.199
what I found out here. We
have a lot of what I call pastor

1108
01:22:29.279 --> 01:22:34.720
grace, roadside grace, Beho grace. Yes, and a guy to co

1109
01:22:34.960 --> 01:22:43.880
Op told me to spread it and
I've used U sent a P and Zoya.

1110
01:22:44.159 --> 01:22:46.159
I've never used to on the other
one. You can use it on

1111
01:22:46.319 --> 01:22:50.760
Sae Augustine. We'd sold. There
is a commercial version sold as MSM and

1112
01:22:50.840 --> 01:22:56.279
then we call it manner M N
O R A is another version used.

1113
01:22:56.319 --> 01:23:00.720
Just want to be real careful.
It'll damage shrubs and tree if you put

1114
01:23:00.800 --> 01:23:02.800
too much down and drench it down
in the root system, so be careful

1115
01:23:02.840 --> 01:23:05.920
in your landscape using it. But
it's a very effective and it is labeled

1116
01:23:05.920 --> 01:23:12.520
for Saint Augustine and it does control
beha two. Good deal. Thank you

1117
01:23:12.640 --> 01:23:15.439
very much, appreciate your time.
Have a great father's sake. Well you

1118
01:23:15.520 --> 01:23:17.399
too, Paul, thank you very
much for that call. You're listening to

1119
01:23:17.520 --> 01:23:23.319
Garden Line our phone number seven one
three two one two fifty eight seventy four.

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01:23:23.520 --> 01:23:27.800
We are here today. We are
fortunate today to have Scott join us.

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01:23:27.800 --> 01:23:32.279
Scott Author is the director for public
Relations for Star of Hope. Welcome

1122
01:23:32.359 --> 01:23:38.159
Scott, Well, thank you sir, and good morning to you. Yeah,

1123
01:23:38.239 --> 01:23:40.159
it's good to have you here.
Well, we're going to spend some

1124
01:23:40.239 --> 01:23:42.239
time. We're going to go to
break here a little bit, but we'll

1125
01:23:42.319 --> 01:23:45.239
just keep you around if we can
and talk all kinds of things Star of

1126
01:23:45.319 --> 01:23:49.800
Hope. So I've anybody listening knows
how much I think of Star of Hope

1127
01:23:49.840 --> 01:23:54.800
as a ministry and as an outreach
for people that are here in the Houston

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01:23:54.880 --> 01:23:57.640
area. I would dislike you to
tell us a little bit about some of

1129
01:23:57.680 --> 01:24:00.119
the things that you would like us
to be aware of that's going on right

1130
01:24:00.199 --> 01:24:04.479
now with us, For example,
hundred degree heat. My pleasure. Can't

1131
01:24:04.520 --> 01:24:09.399
wait to do it. All right, Well, let's we got just a

1132
01:24:09.479 --> 01:24:11.800
moment here. Let's go ahead,
got about a minute, Maybe you can

1133
01:24:11.840 --> 01:24:15.199
give us a little information, all
right. Well, Star of Hope is

1134
01:24:15.319 --> 01:24:19.279
about to celebrate it's one hundred and
sixteenth year here in Houston. A lot

1135
01:24:19.319 --> 01:24:21.680
of people don't know that we started
back in nineteen oh seven. We are

1136
01:24:21.760 --> 01:24:27.960
one of the oldest and largest homeless
providers in America. Wow, you soon

1137
01:24:28.000 --> 01:24:30.199
should be very proud of that.
Yeah, and it should. We reach

1138
01:24:30.279 --> 01:24:35.840
out to and provide services for about
a thousand homeless and nearly homeless men,

1139
01:24:35.920 --> 01:24:41.359
women and children every single day.
Wow, that's star of hope. And

1140
01:24:41.479 --> 01:24:43.680
a lot of people don't know that. You know, we want to help

1141
01:24:43.720 --> 01:24:47.760
you overnight or maybe for a couple
of weeks, but generally we'd like to

1142
01:24:47.840 --> 01:24:51.239
help change lives. We want you
there for six months or eight months,

1143
01:24:51.720 --> 01:24:55.760
we're up to a year. It
doesn't cost you a penny. You know

1144
01:24:55.880 --> 01:24:59.399
that we do make changes in lives. Yeah, that's true. And you

1145
01:24:59.479 --> 01:25:01.600
know there's a instinct and a lot
of us that we see somebody we want

1146
01:25:01.600 --> 01:25:03.640
to give them some bucks, you
know, give them something to help them

1147
01:25:03.680 --> 01:25:09.359
out. And yes, the meeting
the emergency need right now is important,

1148
01:25:09.760 --> 01:25:13.840
but it's the long term that you
guys do that really makes change. Absolutely,

1149
01:25:14.000 --> 01:25:15.479
we're gonna head to a break here, but when we come back,

1150
01:25:15.520 --> 01:25:17.640
i'd like to hear about that.
I'd like to hear about what you guys

1151
01:25:17.640 --> 01:25:21.239
are doing out on the streets now
with a hundred degrees outside. And also

1152
01:25:21.640 --> 01:25:28.159
i'd like to talk a little bit
about the combination of ministries and activities and

1153
01:25:28.279 --> 01:25:32.279
trainings that turn somebody from where they
are into someone that's on their feet,

1154
01:25:32.439 --> 01:25:36.119
that's successful and making a life for
their kids. Most of all too.

1155
01:25:36.800 --> 01:25:54.720
All right, thank you, well, good Sunday morning, Good Father's Day,

1156
01:25:54.800 --> 01:25:58.000
Sunday morning. We are here to
answer gardening questions. But for this

1157
01:25:58.279 --> 01:26:01.239
segment, what we're going to do
is we're going to visit with a friend

1158
01:26:01.279 --> 01:26:05.000
of mine that I met just not
too long ago, but Scott Author from

1159
01:26:05.039 --> 01:26:08.920
the director. He's a director of
public relations at Star of Hope, and

1160
01:26:09.000 --> 01:26:12.000
we're talking about things going on now
with Star of Hope and Scott, I'd

1161
01:26:12.039 --> 01:26:15.760
like you to talk a little bit
about what's happening here with it's so darn

1162
01:26:15.880 --> 01:26:19.520
hot outside. What what kinds of
ministries of Star Hope are you guys really

1163
01:26:19.600 --> 01:26:27.920
focusing on right now? Well,
we are. Sorry, it's been so

1164
01:26:28.039 --> 01:26:30.479
long. I know I had to
push my own button years in the studio,

1165
01:26:31.119 --> 01:26:33.680
all the butt in the studio.
You got to find the button.

1166
01:26:34.920 --> 01:26:39.000
Hey, listen, Before we do
that, let me tell you congratulations.

1167
01:26:39.119 --> 01:26:45.079
You had some birdie pig really really
big shoes to fill cane. You slipped

1168
01:26:45.159 --> 01:26:47.680
right in. You're you're really doing
good. I listened to you. I

1169
01:26:47.760 --> 01:26:51.600
knew Rainy for years, and uh
no, you you got it. I'm

1170
01:26:51.640 --> 01:26:55.279
listening to your audience and I think
that they have accepted you as well.

1171
01:26:56.079 --> 01:26:59.640
You've done a really good job.
I've never left the studio and met him

1172
01:26:59.680 --> 01:27:02.800
angry mob with torches and pitchforks yet, So I think we're gonna call that

1173
01:27:02.880 --> 01:27:09.680
away. You know, that does
come with it sometimes, whatever it is

1174
01:27:09.760 --> 01:27:13.920
torture when you are homeless, say
you're out on the streets. Let me

1175
01:27:14.000 --> 01:27:17.359
tell you, we are in the
vicinity of maybe like seven, eight,

1176
01:27:17.479 --> 01:27:25.039
maybe nine days of one hundred plus
temperatures. It's it's literally life threatening to

1177
01:27:25.920 --> 01:27:31.439
you know you and I dread going
from an air conditioned office to the car

1178
01:27:32.000 --> 01:27:34.920
where it's going to be hot for
a couple of seconds until it cools off.

1179
01:27:35.479 --> 01:27:40.079
We'll imagine if there is no air
conditioning in the car, there's no

1180
01:27:40.239 --> 01:27:44.880
office, it's just that hot stuff
in between. And there's oh, i'd

1181
01:27:44.880 --> 01:27:48.359
say hundreds and hundreds and hundreds of
people men, women, and some children

1182
01:27:48.760 --> 01:27:54.199
out there on the streets and they're
suffering, they really are. And we

1183
01:27:54.359 --> 01:27:59.359
we as Star of Hope, have
extended our services so that we now have

1184
01:27:59.479 --> 01:28:02.560
what we call Love and Action vans, and we have case managers that go

1185
01:28:02.680 --> 01:28:09.439
out in these vans and they work
strictly with the street homeless. And we're

1186
01:28:09.560 --> 01:28:13.319
not only in Harris County, we're
also in Montgomery County, Brazoria, and

1187
01:28:13.800 --> 01:28:16.159
Fort Ben County. And so when
you see these people on the streets,

1188
01:28:16.199 --> 01:28:19.359
and I'm not talking about necessarily the
guys at the intersections, but I'm talking

1189
01:28:19.399 --> 01:28:24.560
about the people you see intent cities, some of the people you don't see

1190
01:28:25.119 --> 01:28:29.000
under the bridges or in the woods, things like that. We know where

1191
01:28:29.039 --> 01:28:31.399
they are and they know where we
are as well, and it's our job

1192
01:28:31.439 --> 01:28:35.159
to go out and let them know
that we are working with them, make

1193
01:28:35.199 --> 01:28:40.119
sure that they get extra water,
make sure they know where the cooling stations

1194
01:28:40.159 --> 01:28:43.960
are. We have two facilities.
One is a men's center downtown and the

1195
01:28:44.039 --> 01:28:47.239
other one is a women in Family
Development Center which is just off of two

1196
01:28:47.319 --> 01:28:51.039
eighty eight on Red Road, and
that holds one hundred and eighty single women

1197
01:28:51.079 --> 01:28:54.239
at one hundred and thirty families.
So we take care of a lot of

1198
01:28:54.279 --> 01:28:59.119
people. We are at capacity,
which is why we're sending out those Love

1199
01:28:59.199 --> 01:29:03.640
and Action vans on a more regular
basis to reach out for these people and

1200
01:29:03.680 --> 01:29:06.880
a lot of folks. A lot
of folks are in a homeless situation,

1201
01:29:08.199 --> 01:29:11.479
either for no fault to their own
or you know, we've all made mistakes,

1202
01:29:11.840 --> 01:29:15.039
bad decisions and things, and you
find yourself in a spot and you

1203
01:29:15.119 --> 01:29:17.720
want your life to change, and
that's hard to do overnight. Early today,

1204
01:29:17.760 --> 01:29:20.640
in the first hour, I was
talking about the just getting our heads

1205
01:29:20.800 --> 01:29:26.159
around the fact that for us going
to interview for a job or you know,

1206
01:29:26.279 --> 01:29:29.279
what do I need to do to
move forward in life? It's real

1207
01:29:29.359 --> 01:29:31.199
simple. But when you don't have
any money to begin with, you have

1208
01:29:31.279 --> 01:29:33.720
no where to live, you have
no clothes, to where to an interview,

1209
01:29:34.119 --> 01:29:39.319
you have on and on and on. You guys are able to take

1210
01:29:39.399 --> 01:29:44.560
people from that situation and provide the
bridge from where they live now to that

1211
01:29:44.880 --> 01:29:47.960
successful life for them and for their
kids. Absolutely, we meet them where

1212
01:29:48.039 --> 01:29:50.840
they are and that's the important part. But you know, in what you

1213
01:29:51.000 --> 01:29:55.439
just described is a great evolution of
you know, a new life. But

1214
01:29:55.600 --> 01:29:59.119
the big thing is for them to
make that decision to do it. You

1215
01:29:59.239 --> 01:30:00.800
know, it's it's it's sort of
like it it's sobering, and in many

1216
01:30:00.880 --> 01:30:03.800
cases it is. I mean,
we take care of people with structured,

1217
01:30:04.880 --> 01:30:10.239
structured recovery programs. It's too early
for me. I mean, we talk

1218
01:30:10.279 --> 01:30:14.399
about giving them an education, getting
them a geed if they need or help

1219
01:30:14.479 --> 01:30:17.359
the go even hire in school.
We help people with employment. We do

1220
01:30:17.520 --> 01:30:24.199
mock job interviews. We get them
on the computers and let them figure out

1221
01:30:24.279 --> 01:30:30.600
how to actually search for a job
online. We help them with dressing up

1222
01:30:30.680 --> 01:30:32.640
for that job interview. We help
them make sure that they get on a

1223
01:30:32.720 --> 01:30:36.000
bus and they get to that job
interview. We give them references, and

1224
01:30:36.600 --> 01:30:40.359
we make sure that they get that
job. And when they get that job,

1225
01:30:40.439 --> 01:30:43.079
we say, don't go anywhere.
Stay with us. You know,

1226
01:30:43.239 --> 01:30:45.159
we're still feeding you. We're putting
a roof over your head, We're giving

1227
01:30:45.199 --> 01:30:48.640
you clothes. Take that money,
put it aside, so when you are

1228
01:30:48.760 --> 01:30:53.239
ready, we'll give you a check. I say, this is the money

1229
01:30:53.279 --> 01:30:56.920
you saved, and you're about to
go into housing. You're about to start

1230
01:30:56.960 --> 01:31:00.640
your life all over again. Yeah, you know that. Here here in

1231
01:31:00.680 --> 01:31:03.199
America, we love to think of
the I pulled myself up by my bootstraps,

1232
01:31:03.560 --> 01:31:08.760
you know kind of mentality. And
certainly there's there's value to hard work

1233
01:31:08.880 --> 01:31:13.399
and taking responsibility for your life.
But when you're thinking about the like you

1234
01:31:13.479 --> 01:31:16.399
were just talking about there during that
time at Star Hope, they've got to

1235
01:31:16.399 --> 01:31:19.039
have a deposit to put out on
an apartment, you know, they've got

1236
01:31:19.159 --> 01:31:21.920
to figure out what am I do
with daycare? When I do have the

1237
01:31:23.039 --> 01:31:25.359
job? Absolutely, how do I
get to the job? What is the

1238
01:31:25.439 --> 01:31:28.800
transportation. There's a lot of things
that have to be in place for them

1239
01:31:28.840 --> 01:31:31.760
to be successful. Otherwise it's just
a bottle rocket that whizzes off in the

1240
01:31:31.840 --> 01:31:34.479
air, goes out and falls back
to the ground. That's exactly right.

1241
01:31:34.600 --> 01:31:38.680
Not a long term benefit. You
guys do that though, we do.

1242
01:31:38.960 --> 01:31:41.560
Yeah, we do. That's why
we want them for six or seven or

1243
01:31:41.560 --> 01:31:44.479
eight months or so, so we
can help them change their life, give

1244
01:31:44.560 --> 01:31:47.479
them a foundation. It's not like, you know, we're going to pull

1245
01:31:47.520 --> 01:31:53.199
you out of the pool and save
your life. What we're going to do

1246
01:31:53.279 --> 01:31:55.800
is pull you out of the pool, teach you to swim in case you

1247
01:31:55.920 --> 01:31:59.359
jump back into the pool again.
There you go. And that's that's that's

1248
01:31:59.439 --> 01:32:01.560
the whole on something of what we
do, and that happens, doesn't it.

1249
01:32:01.680 --> 01:32:04.479
I you know, I wish that
I they say, learned from the

1250
01:32:04.520 --> 01:32:08.079
mistakes of others. You don't have
time to make him yourself. I need

1251
01:32:08.119 --> 01:32:13.800
to learn from home mistakes because sometimes
I remake them myself. So it's getting

1252
01:32:13.840 --> 01:32:15.720
your getting your head screwed on straight, getting your feet under you. Having

1253
01:32:15.760 --> 01:32:20.239
those opportunities is huge. It's very
very huge. Excuse me one second,

1254
01:32:20.279 --> 01:32:24.119
Scott, if you would like to
talk with Scott, or maybe ask a

1255
01:32:24.279 --> 01:32:29.520
question about Star Hope right down seven
one three two one two fifty eight seventy

1256
01:32:29.560 --> 01:32:31.960
four, give us a call seven
one three two one two five eight seven

1257
01:32:32.079 --> 01:32:34.479
four and Scott'll be here with us
for a little while, long as I

1258
01:32:34.520 --> 01:32:38.880
can talk him into hanging around and
say anyway, I interrupted you, but

1259
01:32:38.960 --> 01:32:41.319
oh, it's just gonna say it's
Father's Day. Happy Father's Day to you,

1260
01:32:41.399 --> 01:32:44.960
sir, Thank you all right as
well. I appreciate that problem.

1261
01:32:45.439 --> 01:32:48.760
Now I've got a Father's Day story
for you. I'm storryful and this I

1262
01:32:48.800 --> 01:32:54.319
would love to hear that. This
is amazing. Gentlemen, by the name

1263
01:32:54.359 --> 01:32:59.560
we'll call him, Chris had a
job and he lost that job, and

1264
01:32:59.680 --> 01:33:00.800
he didn't get another one, and
he couldn't get another one, and he

1265
01:33:00.840 --> 01:33:05.560
couldn't get another one. He got
divorced. Things were really looking bleak,

1266
01:33:05.720 --> 01:33:11.199
and then he ended up living in
his car and somebody said Star of Hope.

1267
01:33:11.720 --> 01:33:14.199
So he went to the Star of
Hope and he began the process to

1268
01:33:14.359 --> 01:33:18.640
change his life. Unbeknownst to him. His adult son, Chris Junior,

1269
01:33:19.720 --> 01:33:25.720
went through the same thing at the
same time. He was struggling with alcohol

1270
01:33:25.760 --> 01:33:29.359
and drugs, ended up living in
his car. Someone said, try Starfolpe,

1271
01:33:30.039 --> 01:33:32.720
so he went to Starofolpe, ran
into his father, with whom he

1272
01:33:32.800 --> 01:33:38.840
had not had a relationship in a
long time. They bonded and together they

1273
01:33:39.000 --> 01:33:44.359
changed their life through Starfolpe and now
together they both have full time jobs working

1274
01:33:44.560 --> 01:33:47.680
together, and now they are looking
for housing and they're about to sign a

1275
01:33:47.760 --> 01:33:54.039
lease on an apartment living together.
Cool. That's cool, that's exciting.

1276
01:33:55.239 --> 01:34:00.560
You know, I'm a softie for
stories, especially redemptions or as you know,

1277
01:34:00.760 --> 01:34:04.520
where where lives are changed and hope
is renewed and things like that.

1278
01:34:04.640 --> 01:34:08.960
We were just watching a show last
night and I literally tearing up. I

1279
01:34:10.159 --> 01:34:15.279
cry easily when it's a good redemption
story when you see hope and and another

1280
01:34:15.439 --> 01:34:17.960
chance and you guys provide that,
and you know, and in an environment

1281
01:34:18.079 --> 01:34:21.840
centered around the love of Christ and
the and the commission to get out and

1282
01:34:23.000 --> 01:34:26.880
make a difference, to to reach
people, to touch people, to have

1283
01:34:27.000 --> 01:34:30.199
compassion on people who love people.
Wow, you do this good? Well,

1284
01:34:30.239 --> 01:34:32.319
I'm I'm talking from a heart here. Scott. I know that's that's

1285
01:34:32.359 --> 01:34:35.079
what I love about you, you
know. And let me tell you I

1286
01:34:35.239 --> 01:34:39.840
took Skip out gosh, I don't
know what, maybe a month or so

1287
01:34:39.960 --> 01:34:44.159
ago, and he was able to
tour the facilities. And I do that

1288
01:34:44.239 --> 01:34:45.920
a lot, especially with people who
are going to represent us on the radio

1289
01:34:46.079 --> 01:34:51.840
or TV. And I have never
seen more commitments in anybody's face other than

1290
01:34:51.960 --> 01:34:56.039
what I was saying, you know, looking at and working with Skip.

1291
01:34:56.560 --> 01:35:00.159
Thank you. He asked a lot
of great in depth questions and I've heard

1292
01:35:00.199 --> 01:35:03.399
your commercials and apparently you heard all
the answers, and thank you so much.

1293
01:35:03.560 --> 01:35:08.680
We drive sometimes it takes things to
sink in. There are people in

1294
01:35:08.760 --> 01:35:13.479
my life who would tell you that
I don't always listen. Well, I'm

1295
01:35:13.520 --> 01:35:15.520
glad we did that day. You
know. There's there's so many people that

1296
01:35:15.600 --> 01:35:21.920
you see on the streets and again
intersections, under the overpasses, under the

1297
01:35:23.000 --> 01:35:27.600
bridges, etc. The ten cities. And while I try and get people

1298
01:35:27.640 --> 01:35:30.760
to realize is you've got to change
your point of view, your POV.

1299
01:35:30.560 --> 01:35:35.279
When you look at somebody, you
say, that's that's somebody's son, yeah,

1300
01:35:35.680 --> 01:35:41.399
or that's somebody's father. Today if
you see somebody when you're driving around

1301
01:35:41.520 --> 01:35:45.840
and there's a guy on the street, possibility that he is a father that's

1302
01:35:45.880 --> 01:35:48.560
not getting a Father's Day card.
Yeah, you know, is just very

1303
01:35:48.600 --> 01:35:53.279
happy if he gets some meal or
a couple of bottles of water. Or

1304
01:35:53.479 --> 01:35:57.800
is that maybe somebody's mom or somebody's
aunt or somebody's sister. Look at it

1305
01:35:57.960 --> 01:36:02.720
that way. Yeah, yeah,
a little curious. There's an old line

1306
01:36:03.119 --> 01:36:06.000
from I like watching Ted Lasso.
I don't know if you've ever seen that

1307
01:36:06.039 --> 01:36:10.479
show, but there's a line be
curious, not judgmental. I've always liked

1308
01:36:10.520 --> 01:36:14.119
that line because you know, there's
there's always a story. When you see

1309
01:36:14.159 --> 01:36:16.039
somebody and kind of size them up
in a quick moment, and then you

1310
01:36:16.119 --> 01:36:19.640
sit down and you talk with them
for a while, and wow, there

1311
01:36:19.840 --> 01:36:25.760
is a story in every human being
that is well worth hearing. You know,

1312
01:36:25.920 --> 01:36:29.079
you're absolutely right beclous People say,
well, what makes people homeless?

1313
01:36:29.600 --> 01:36:31.119
And I say, how much time
you got? Yeah? There is as

1314
01:36:31.159 --> 01:36:34.760
many stories as there are people on
the streets, right, that's true,

1315
01:36:35.199 --> 01:36:39.760
many many good ones. You know, we got about a minute left here

1316
01:36:39.760 --> 01:36:42.560
before we go to a break.
I would like to hear a little bit.

1317
01:36:42.600 --> 01:36:45.239
I know that summer is kind of
a lagging time when it comes to

1318
01:36:45.399 --> 01:36:49.359
donations to provide all the bazilion things
you guys do. That's true, It

1319
01:36:49.520 --> 01:36:55.880
is true. Summer is probably the
busiest time that we ever have during the

1320
01:36:55.960 --> 01:36:59.560
year at Starful, and it's also
the time that we have the least amount

1321
01:36:59.560 --> 01:37:01.920
of support because people are you know, they're doing family stuff, they're on

1322
01:37:02.119 --> 01:37:05.800
vacations, and the last thing they
think about is somebody homeless on the streets,

1323
01:37:06.000 --> 01:37:11.239
especially on it's one hundred degrees right. So we ask people for financial

1324
01:37:11.319 --> 01:37:15.479
donations. You can go to shmission
dot org. And now we ask people

1325
01:37:15.520 --> 01:37:18.159
for water. I mean, we're
getting people who are giving us hundreds and

1326
01:37:18.279 --> 01:37:23.279
hundreds of bottles of water and we're
giving those out practically every day. Wow,

1327
01:37:23.439 --> 01:37:27.399
I would think there's an endless need
for just a drink or cool water

1328
01:37:27.720 --> 01:37:32.000
just getting by and doing that.
Well, that this is all really really

1329
01:37:32.119 --> 01:37:35.239
exciting and good stuff. And if
you are interested in Star of Hope,

1330
01:37:35.520 --> 01:37:43.399
write this down shmission dot orgh mission
dot org. That's the website to begin

1331
01:37:43.479 --> 01:37:47.640
to learn start the process of really
learning about the facial homelessness and what Star

1332
01:37:47.760 --> 01:37:53.119
of Hopes is doing to change that. Here We're going to take a break.

1333
01:37:53.159 --> 01:37:55.760
Here our phone number if you'd like
to give us a call seven one

1334
01:37:55.920 --> 01:38:20.000
three two one two fifty eight seventy
four. Well, welcome to garden Line

1335
01:38:20.279 --> 01:38:26.039
on a beautiful Sunday morning. Also
a beautiful Father's Day, and happy Father's

1336
01:38:26.119 --> 01:38:30.520
Day to all the dad's out there. We are visiting with a with a

1337
01:38:30.880 --> 01:38:33.680
with Scott Author from Star of Hope
Mission this morning. I'm gonna take a

1338
01:38:33.720 --> 01:38:38.079
break, take a quick call.
If you have a call that you would

1339
01:38:38.159 --> 01:38:41.960
like to make about Star of Hope. Maybe it's a question about homelessness,

1340
01:38:42.039 --> 01:38:46.199
something you've always wondered, maybe a
hesitation you have or a curiosity. We'll

1341
01:38:46.279 --> 01:38:48.880
give us a call. We'll be
happy to talk about that. Seven one

1342
01:38:49.039 --> 01:38:53.439
three two one two fifty eight seventy
four. Right now I'm gonna go out

1343
01:38:53.479 --> 01:38:58.039
to Spring and talk to Lucy.
Good morning, Lucy, Good morning,

1344
01:38:58.119 --> 01:39:01.159
Skip. How are you this morning? Well, thank you. I'm pulling

1345
01:39:01.239 --> 01:39:06.079
my hair out over my gardenias.
I heard you mentioned guardenias earlier, and

1346
01:39:06.239 --> 01:39:11.439
I'm just I had a couple that
I planted on the north side of the

1347
01:39:11.520 --> 01:39:15.800
house and they perished, and where
I bought them, they did replace them.

1348
01:39:16.520 --> 01:39:20.680
So then I had lost some other
plants on the east side of my

1349
01:39:20.840 --> 01:39:28.520
house during the freeze, so I
put four gardenias over there, and they

1350
01:39:28.680 --> 01:39:31.600
seem to be doing pretty good.
But now the leaves they're turning yellow.

1351
01:39:32.439 --> 01:39:36.000
Okay, I'm fertilizing them. I
mean, they get the morning sun,

1352
01:39:38.119 --> 01:39:42.199
so I don't want to lose them. I bet I wouldn't either. So

1353
01:39:42.399 --> 01:39:45.439
when you look at the bush and
you're looking at let's say a branch or,

1354
01:39:45.520 --> 01:39:48.279
the yellow leaves at the end of
the branch or, are they further

1355
01:39:48.399 --> 01:39:55.560
back the older, larger leaves.
I think it's the older leaves. Okay,

1356
01:39:55.960 --> 01:39:58.319
So that could be due to a
number of things. It could it

1357
01:39:58.359 --> 01:40:00.920
could be a lack of nitrogen,
but more likely it's related to roots and

1358
01:40:01.039 --> 01:40:05.039
moisture. If it goes dry for
a while and then you water and everything,

1359
01:40:05.119 --> 01:40:10.000
you're going to see a lot of
older yellow leaves dropping. You haven't

1360
01:40:10.039 --> 01:40:13.000
had the bushes long enough. But
you know, as you have Guardinho's for

1361
01:40:13.079 --> 01:40:16.439
a good while, it's evergreen.
But each leaf has a lifespan, and

1362
01:40:16.560 --> 01:40:20.000
so the older leaves tend to at
some point turn yellow and fall off naturally.

1363
01:40:20.119 --> 01:40:24.279
But I think, yeah, they're
only like three weeks so yeah,

1364
01:40:24.399 --> 01:40:28.119
yeah, so you're not there yet, but I think watching the moisture.

1365
01:40:28.319 --> 01:40:30.000
You know that when you put them
in the ground, all the roots are

1366
01:40:30.039 --> 01:40:34.960
in that little cylinder of soil,
and so in the nursery it was watered

1367
01:40:35.039 --> 01:40:39.199
twice a day probably to keep it
happy and healthy. When you put it

1368
01:40:39.279 --> 01:40:43.039
in the ground. You got to
keep doing that in small amounts because those

1369
01:40:43.119 --> 01:40:45.680
are the roots. That's the only
place that can get water. And so

1370
01:40:45.920 --> 01:40:48.960
eventually roots move out in the soil
and it becomes very resilient, but early

1371
01:40:49.079 --> 01:40:55.000
on it's touching go making sure it
stays moist but not saggy wet that would

1372
01:40:55.079 --> 01:40:58.359
Well, I've been kind of doing
that because I've heard you say that you

1373
01:40:58.399 --> 01:41:01.239
know about how the nurse freeze water
them. So I've just kind of been

1374
01:41:01.439 --> 01:41:06.239
going out and squirting them once a
day, but even sometimes twice a day

1375
01:41:06.279 --> 01:41:10.279
in this heat, but not a
lot. Well, try to kind of

1376
01:41:10.319 --> 01:41:13.680
getting them, yeah, Lucy,
do this, dig down about three inches

1377
01:41:13.840 --> 01:41:16.399
around them and just feel the soil
and see if it's moist or not.

1378
01:41:16.760 --> 01:41:20.000
That that's kind of the bottom line. I can say water for this long

1379
01:41:20.159 --> 01:41:25.199
water this often, but really what
matters is is a soil saying nice and

1380
01:41:25.319 --> 01:41:29.880
moist, adequately moist but not soggy. And then well I am feeding them

1381
01:41:29.960 --> 01:41:33.960
too. I mean, I've got
the microlife. They get the pink label

1382
01:41:34.119 --> 01:41:40.399
for the acid, right, and
uh, I don't know if I'm overdoing

1383
01:41:40.439 --> 01:41:43.840
it, underdoing it whatever, But
well, I just saw the leaves this

1384
01:41:44.039 --> 01:41:46.479
morning and I went, oh,
no, yeah, and this soon after.

1385
01:41:46.880 --> 01:41:50.600
You know, it's not the fertilizer
issue. That's a great fertilizer and

1386
01:41:50.880 --> 01:41:56.840
overtime it's gonna really help those plants. But I think water right now,

1387
01:41:57.039 --> 01:42:01.399
is it? And that's about as
I would just say. Let's keep focusing

1388
01:42:01.520 --> 01:42:04.640
on that. That's going to be
the key. All right. You don't

1389
01:42:04.680 --> 01:42:09.319
think it's over watering. It could
be. That's why we dig down about

1390
01:42:09.359 --> 01:42:12.840
three inches and feel the soil.
Is okay, I'm gonna do that.

1391
01:42:13.119 --> 01:42:15.239
There you go. Yeah, we
definitely can't over water them. All right,

1392
01:42:15.279 --> 01:42:19.439
Bye, bye, appreciate that call. Well Scott again, welcome.

1393
01:42:19.479 --> 01:42:23.880
We're so glad you're here today.
I wanted to ask you, you know,

1394
01:42:24.000 --> 01:42:27.560
sometimes you drive around Houston, you
see these ten cities, tell me

1395
01:42:27.640 --> 01:42:31.279
about that. What's going on?
How is whired? They where they are?

1396
01:42:31.479 --> 01:42:35.560
And now that's a great question,
and a lot of people drive by

1397
01:42:35.720 --> 01:42:41.479
and judge, so I got a
job. You know, it's again.

1398
01:42:41.520 --> 01:42:44.520
There are so many different stories,
and I've been spending a lot of time

1399
01:42:44.600 --> 01:42:50.079
over the last couple of weeks at
different tense cities, and all I can

1400
01:42:50.159 --> 01:42:56.199
say is that most of those people
there are waiting for housing. They are

1401
01:42:56.279 --> 01:42:58.840
signed up for housing, and they're
waiting for the phone call to say,

1402
01:42:58.920 --> 01:43:02.439
Okay, you're next in law and
let's go and see your apartment and sign

1403
01:43:02.520 --> 01:43:06.920
the lease and begin your life again. There are a certain number of people

1404
01:43:08.000 --> 01:43:11.000
out there that that's just their lifestyle, that's what they want to do.

1405
01:43:11.079 --> 01:43:14.399
This is you know, they've just
put a big circle and said, you

1406
01:43:14.479 --> 01:43:17.840
know this eight foot or twelve foot
is my land. It's my life,

1407
01:43:18.439 --> 01:43:21.880
and you know I want to do
it the way I want and I don't

1408
01:43:21.920 --> 01:43:25.960
need your help. Thank you.
So there's a little bit of everything out

1409
01:43:26.000 --> 01:43:29.920
there, but great stories on and
on and on. Let me tell you

1410
01:43:30.000 --> 01:43:33.279
one quick story, not a tense
city. But there's a gentleman that I

1411
01:43:33.479 --> 01:43:38.720
was prepping. We have a banquet
every year. Our next one is at

1412
01:43:38.760 --> 01:43:44.159
February from Star of Hope and we
do testimonies and there was this one gentleman

1413
01:43:44.199 --> 01:43:48.520
who had gone through our men's Development
center, and he had brought his son

1414
01:43:48.720 --> 01:43:55.119
with him, speaking of the father's
day. The son was autistic. He

1415
01:43:55.319 --> 01:44:00.359
was on the spectrum, and he
said, this is where I spent a

1416
01:44:00.520 --> 01:44:04.479
year of my life and it changed
my life ten years ago, and he

1417
01:44:04.560 --> 01:44:08.399
gave him a tour of the entire
place. So I said, I got

1418
01:44:08.479 --> 01:44:11.840
to talk to this guy. So
I sat down and we hit it off,

1419
01:44:11.960 --> 01:44:15.119
and he told me a story about
how he was in the service and

1420
01:44:15.640 --> 01:44:21.800
he was a sergeant. He was
in Germany and he spent a lot of

1421
01:44:21.880 --> 01:44:29.039
time there and he got a honorable
discharge and he came back to Houston,

1422
01:44:29.600 --> 01:44:30.560
and I heard the whole story,
and I was like, well, no,

1423
01:44:30.920 --> 01:44:34.399
how did you end up, you
know, homeless? Because he had

1424
01:44:34.399 --> 01:44:38.359
a son, he had a wife
and everything. And he said, the

1425
01:44:38.479 --> 01:44:42.439
problem is that I was involved in
some sort of an accident and I got

1426
01:44:42.479 --> 01:44:45.439
paid a lot of money on the
government. So I came home with like

1427
01:44:45.600 --> 01:44:50.199
fifty thousand dollars and went from coast
to coast and just used it on drugs

1428
01:44:50.279 --> 01:44:55.239
and everything else, and I ended
up at Starfolpe. So I said,

1429
01:44:55.279 --> 01:44:59.199
okay, well you're going to come
to this banquet and don't be confused.

1430
01:44:59.239 --> 01:45:01.079
I'll maybe have like two different forks
and three doves he went. He said,

1431
01:45:01.079 --> 01:45:03.039
Oh, I know all that.
So how do you know all that?

1432
01:45:03.600 --> 01:45:08.159
He said, because we had to
take an etiquette course before we met

1433
01:45:08.239 --> 01:45:13.239
the queen. Oh excuse me,
you met the queen, he said,

1434
01:45:13.960 --> 01:45:17.079
the Queen, her her Royal Majesty. He said, wow, And I

1435
01:45:17.159 --> 01:45:19.560
said, how was that? He
said, well, I was named one

1436
01:45:19.560 --> 01:45:24.960
of the top sergeants in Germany and
apparently every year they take all those top

1437
01:45:25.000 --> 01:45:29.520
people and they actually have tea at
the palace with Her Majesty. Wow.

1438
01:45:29.800 --> 01:45:32.279
So I said, so you had
tea with the queen? He went,

1439
01:45:32.600 --> 01:45:36.760
yeah, I said, and you
never mentioned that to me before. So

1440
01:45:36.960 --> 01:45:43.199
here's a guy who literally had tea
with the Queen of England and ended up

1441
01:45:43.279 --> 01:45:47.159
at a cardboard box downtown next to
the Greyhound bus station. Wow. That

1442
01:45:47.439 --> 01:45:51.680
is an amazing You don't know the
stories, you had, no idea,

1443
01:45:51.760 --> 01:45:58.840
what had you? Don't be curious? Non judgmental when but sh mission dot

1444
01:45:58.960 --> 01:46:00.880
org write that down? S so
h mission dot org. We're gonna go

1445
01:46:00.920 --> 01:46:03.199
to a break, Jim. I
see out in clear Lake would be the

1446
01:46:03.239 --> 01:46:08.439
first one when we come back seven
one three two one two fifty eight seventy

1447
01:46:08.479 --> 01:46:11.279
four. Scott, this has been
so enjoyable. Thank you, thank you

1448
01:46:41.079 --> 01:46:45.199
well, good Sunday morning and a
happy Father's date all the dad's out there.

1449
01:46:45.359 --> 01:46:48.479
We are so glad that you're listening
today. I'm gonna head out right

1450
01:46:48.600 --> 01:46:53.359
quick. We got Scott author from
Star Hope Mission. We're gonna visit a

1451
01:46:53.399 --> 01:46:56.520
little bit more about this, but
first I want to head out and talk

1452
01:46:56.560 --> 01:47:00.640
to Jim and clear Lake. Hello
Jim, thanks for being so pay holding

1453
01:47:00.760 --> 01:47:04.479
the morning Skip. I wanted to
talk a little bit about my law and

1454
01:47:05.039 --> 01:47:11.760
I lost a large porchmith to Virginia
button me last year. I did sow

1455
01:47:11.920 --> 01:47:16.680
this spring, but I also got
what Randy called self induced brown spot.

1456
01:47:17.279 --> 01:47:25.079
I had done my September fertilization and
evidently Nelson came out with a new part

1457
01:47:25.199 --> 01:47:28.800
product. So about six weeks after
that, I added that new lawn product

1458
01:47:29.359 --> 01:47:32.680
and I got a few patches of
brown spot, which I've been remediating.

1459
01:47:33.000 --> 01:47:38.760
I don't think they're active anymore because
basically because of all this heat, but

1460
01:47:39.000 --> 01:47:44.439
I'm wondering I've got living earth,
top soil and compost that I've added once,

1461
01:47:44.960 --> 01:47:48.000
and I'm wondering when I do that
again, how often can I add

1462
01:47:48.119 --> 01:47:56.279
the medina has to grow long,
well, I would I wouldn't say how

1463
01:47:56.359 --> 01:47:58.920
often can I would say, like, when do you need to? And

1464
01:47:59.039 --> 01:48:02.000
so look at your law and if
it is growing actively and it looks it's

1465
01:48:02.079 --> 01:48:06.479
green, it's healthy, it's got
vigor. I wouldn't fertilize just yet because

1466
01:48:06.600 --> 01:48:10.119
when we overdo it in the summer, we get to mow more, the

1467
01:48:10.279 --> 01:48:14.840
grass is more shallow, rooted,
less resilient and so on. So if

1468
01:48:15.159 --> 01:48:16.279
the lawn, on the other hand, is a little bit thin, you

1469
01:48:16.359 --> 01:48:19.119
know you can see the soil through
the grass a little bit, or it

1470
01:48:19.239 --> 01:48:23.479
just needs more vigor than I would
do it right away. So let the

1471
01:48:23.560 --> 01:48:26.600
lawn tell you if it needs a
boost now or not. The hastgro is

1472
01:48:26.640 --> 01:48:30.680
going to give you a pretty quick
response. Is it possible that that would

1473
01:48:30.760 --> 01:48:34.479
lead to a brown patch? And
I've got a fung your side that I

1474
01:48:34.600 --> 01:48:39.359
could spray on there just to be
sure that nothing is Yeah, you shouldn't

1475
01:48:39.359 --> 01:48:42.199
see we used to call brown patch, now would call large patch. It's

1476
01:48:42.199 --> 01:48:47.760
a big circles in the cool season. You're fertilizing, doesn't lead to it,

1477
01:48:47.920 --> 01:48:51.840
but it can make it worse if
you overdo the nitrogen and make the

1478
01:48:51.920 --> 01:48:57.479
grass real tender and succulent. It's
just more susceptible. But that disease is

1479
01:48:57.600 --> 01:49:00.399
ubiquitous. It's around. It can
get in an e r. It wants

1480
01:49:00.439 --> 01:49:01.960
to it, you know, anytime
we go into the cooler weather a little

1481
01:49:02.000 --> 01:49:05.800
bit. And so I would just
moderate the fertilizer. That's why I said,

1482
01:49:05.880 --> 01:49:09.520
let the grass to you if it's
going to need fertilizing, just by

1483
01:49:09.760 --> 01:49:12.680
taking a good look at it.
And if it doesn't, don't push it.

1484
01:49:12.880 --> 01:49:16.840
Especially as we get into August and
September approaching October, that's when that

1485
01:49:16.960 --> 01:49:20.319
large patch is going to hit again. Okay, So I do have a

1486
01:49:20.399 --> 01:49:25.960
few spots in my front yard which
is north facing, and it has an

1487
01:49:26.000 --> 01:49:30.720
oak that's usually been really healthy,
and it seems healthy now except for I

1488
01:49:30.800 --> 01:49:35.560
still see soil in some of those
old areas. Yeah, so I considered

1489
01:49:35.640 --> 01:49:42.199
that I would go ahead and in
those areas spot in the top soil compost

1490
01:49:42.600 --> 01:49:45.520
and then use the has to grow. Would that be recommended? That that

1491
01:49:45.920 --> 01:49:48.039
would be fine. You know,
when you say topsail compost, it could

1492
01:49:48.079 --> 01:49:51.319
mean a lot of different things.
And so I'm a little hesitant on that

1493
01:49:51.439 --> 01:49:56.640
one. A leafmo compost over the
top would be fine, but that has

1494
01:49:56.720 --> 01:49:59.640
to grow. Yes, just look
at it like I'm going to give it

1495
01:49:59.640 --> 01:50:01.960
a little loosed here to kick things
into gear and try to fill that that

1496
01:50:02.079 --> 01:50:05.560
bare soil in. Okay, well, this is the living earth. Look,

1497
01:50:05.920 --> 01:50:09.560
okay, I'll do so. And
I appreciate your answers. Thank you,

1498
01:50:10.000 --> 01:50:12.279
and you're doing a great job.
Thank you for the patience. I

1499
01:50:12.319 --> 01:50:15.319
appreciate your holding and good luck with
that with that lawn. Well, Scott,

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01:50:16.000 --> 01:50:20.800
before we lose you here, I
would like to just ask a question

1501
01:50:20.920 --> 01:50:25.039
that I think maybe on a lot
of people's minds, and that is what

1502
01:50:25.239 --> 01:50:29.199
can I do now? I know
that donating a Star Hope is an important

1503
01:50:29.239 --> 01:50:33.359
thing my family we support Star of
Hope's. It is very important to me,

1504
01:50:33.840 --> 01:50:36.800
and I would hope other people would
do that too. But I'm driving

1505
01:50:36.840 --> 01:50:42.000
around town. It's one hundred degrees. There are people that need water or

1506
01:50:42.640 --> 01:50:46.439
what kinds of things would you recommend
to somebody that just wants to have a

1507
01:50:46.520 --> 01:50:51.720
little compassion and in a way that's
going to really help and meet a need.

1508
01:50:53.039 --> 01:50:55.880
Well, you know, that's a
great question. Our Love and Action

1509
01:50:55.960 --> 01:51:00.840
bands continue to on a regular basis
reach out to the homeless, especially during

1510
01:51:00.880 --> 01:51:04.239
this heat wave. But my go's
the next couple of days or so.

1511
01:51:05.000 --> 01:51:09.720
I would suggest you just take a
cooler in your car, you know,

1512
01:51:09.800 --> 01:51:13.880
and it maybe that five, six, maybe seven bottles of water. And

1513
01:51:14.000 --> 01:51:16.319
as you're driving around town. Don't
go for it specifically, but as you're

1514
01:51:16.399 --> 01:51:20.760
driving you come across somebody who may
be looking like they're way down on their

1515
01:51:20.880 --> 01:51:24.640
luck or they're very you know,
they're sitting at a bus stop or something

1516
01:51:24.720 --> 01:51:28.079
like that, pull out a bottle
of water, just give it to them

1517
01:51:28.079 --> 01:51:30.000
and say, hey, God bless
you, and we see you, we

1518
01:51:30.159 --> 01:51:34.199
hear you. And that's interesting.
What comes to my mind when you say

1519
01:51:34.279 --> 01:51:40.039
that Starhope is a Christian ministry and
Jesus said, whoever gives a cup of

1520
01:51:40.119 --> 01:51:43.439
water in my name will by no
means lose his reward. I love,

1521
01:51:43.560 --> 01:51:46.319
even just a cup of water is
that little simple thing. I mean,

1522
01:51:46.399 --> 01:51:50.199
Hope, we need to go away
beyond that in terms of making a difference

1523
01:51:50.199 --> 01:51:54.680
in our community. But gosh,
what an easy, simple way to just

1524
01:51:55.560 --> 01:51:58.920
be kind. And yeah, indeed, and I want to thank your audience

1525
01:51:59.079 --> 01:52:02.640
as far as being kind a lot
of folks out there who are listening right

1526
01:52:02.680 --> 01:52:05.680
now donate to Star of Hope on
a regular basis, and God bless you

1527
01:52:05.800 --> 01:52:09.960
for that. You do help us
change lives and make a difference. There's

1528
01:52:10.000 --> 01:52:14.239
no question. And it occurred to
me that it's almost like, you know

1529
01:52:14.319 --> 01:52:17.159
when people call and it's like,
you know, well, there's this bush

1530
01:52:17.600 --> 01:52:21.479
and it used to be a beautiful
bush and then suddenly it just started to

1531
01:52:21.600 --> 01:52:25.520
die and wither and it's not dead
yet, but what do I do to

1532
01:52:25.600 --> 01:52:28.880
bring it back to life? And
you say, water it and put these

1533
01:52:28.920 --> 01:52:31.600
minerals in it and this and that
and watch over it and baby it and

1534
01:52:32.159 --> 01:52:35.840
watch it grow again. That's exactly
what we do at Star of Hope and

1535
01:52:36.399 --> 01:52:39.960
you all help us. So thank
you so very much. Wow. Well

1536
01:52:40.039 --> 01:52:43.399
that's a good analogy, and I
guess it's good for a gardening show to

1537
01:52:43.560 --> 01:52:46.319
talk about it from a horticultural standpoint. Yeah, there's a lot of good

1538
01:52:46.359 --> 01:52:51.319
horticultural analogies of all kinds of things. Well, Scott, I appreciate so

1539
01:52:51.439 --> 01:52:56.000
much you coming in. Scott is
director of public Relations at Star of Hope

1540
01:52:56.119 --> 01:52:59.760
and just thank you for what you
do and thank you for what Star Hope

1541
01:52:59.760 --> 01:53:04.079
do. Uh, I'd had no
idea nationally what a historic, big deal

1542
01:53:04.319 --> 01:53:09.960
star Hope was and that was kind
of cool. Oh yeah, something something

1543
01:53:10.000 --> 01:53:13.800
to be proud of, but something
to be part of too. And uh

1544
01:53:14.239 --> 01:53:17.760
so let's put our let's put our
compassion to action. I cannot think of

1545
01:53:17.840 --> 01:53:23.359
a better cause, a better money
well spent, a better actually make a

1546
01:53:23.479 --> 01:53:28.760
difference. Not just you know,
walk by and give a brief, here's

1547
01:53:28.760 --> 01:53:31.840
a few bucks to help you a
good luck, but actually do the structural

1548
01:53:31.960 --> 01:53:35.560
things that are needed to build that
bridge for a new life for people.

1549
01:53:35.600 --> 01:53:39.960
And you guys, just that's that's
the thing about it. I think that

1550
01:53:40.319 --> 01:53:43.319
that just gets me the most excited. You know, I've always wanted to

1551
01:53:43.560 --> 01:53:45.119
how do we help people? How
can I do something? What difference can

1552
01:53:45.199 --> 01:53:48.439
I make? Well, you just
heard it. I mean we've been talking

1553
01:53:48.439 --> 01:53:50.600
about it for a while. So
thank you so much for coming in.

1554
01:53:50.720 --> 01:53:54.880
You're a good man, and once
again, congratulations you're doing a great job.

1555
01:53:55.000 --> 01:53:57.399
Well, thank you. I appreciate
that. That's very good. Well,

1556
01:53:57.560 --> 01:54:00.039
take care well, Uh you know
you're listening to garden Line. We're

1557
01:54:00.079 --> 01:54:02.800
here to answer your gardening questions too, and we're going to shift back toward

1558
01:54:02.880 --> 01:54:08.119
that again. Now, I just
want to say that if you have any

1559
01:54:08.239 --> 01:54:10.760
kinds of questions, or if you
have any one of the things I've been

1560
01:54:10.800 --> 01:54:14.960
asking today is what are your memories, what are your fragrance memories growing up?

1561
01:54:15.000 --> 01:54:17.359
And what are the plants that you
enjoy? And I've had had some

1562
01:54:17.479 --> 01:54:19.760
calls on that. By the way, dad jokes keep them clean. I

1563
01:54:19.880 --> 01:54:25.359
want to keep my job. Are
also welcome this morning if you'd like to

1564
01:54:25.439 --> 01:54:29.560
call in with a dad joke too, But seriously, what are some wonderful

1565
01:54:29.640 --> 01:54:34.319
plants that are fragrances that you just
remember? On and on down the line.

1566
01:54:35.479 --> 01:54:41.119
I've mentioned a few of my fragrances
and the ones that I enjoy particularly,

1567
01:54:41.600 --> 01:54:43.760
So let's talk about that. We're
going to have to break here in

1568
01:54:43.800 --> 01:54:46.000
a little bit. We've got a
few minutes left before we finished this hour

1569
01:54:46.199 --> 01:54:50.199
up. One of the things that
we get a lot of questions about this

1570
01:54:50.359 --> 01:54:55.680
time of the year is regarding nutrients
and fertilizer and how do I take care

1571
01:54:55.720 --> 01:54:59.439
of my lawn. You know what
is a secret to a healthy lawn?

1572
01:54:59.479 --> 01:55:02.119
Well, the secret to a healthy
lawn is for all the nutrients the grass

1573
01:55:02.199 --> 01:55:06.119
needs to be present in the right
ratios and available in the soil, and

1574
01:55:06.199 --> 01:55:12.319
so that's why we fertilize to provide
that. And the most volatile of all

1575
01:55:12.359 --> 01:55:15.880
the nutrients is nitrogen. You put
it on today, and the nitrogen you

1576
01:55:15.000 --> 01:55:19.880
put on today may not be available
a month from now because it doesn't stick

1577
01:55:19.920 --> 01:55:24.119
around. It goes into microbes,
it goes into plants, it goes into

1578
01:55:24.159 --> 01:55:27.159
the air, it washes away.
A lot of things can happen. So

1579
01:55:27.399 --> 01:55:30.680
we want a fertilizer that's gradual in
the way it feeds, and that's what

1580
01:55:30.880 --> 01:55:34.520
nitroposts. There's part of their Summer
Essentials program. That's what that is.

1581
01:55:34.640 --> 01:55:40.600
That's the silver bag, the nitro
FoST nineteen four ten. Here's what happens.

1582
01:55:40.720 --> 01:55:44.840
The chemistry of the product is it's
going to gradually release that nitrogen over

1583
01:55:44.960 --> 01:55:48.479
time, so you don't mow as
much. Standard types of fertilizer, especially

1584
01:55:48.520 --> 01:55:51.560
when you overapply them, you get
this flush of growth and you get to

1585
01:55:51.640 --> 01:55:55.960
mo mo mow, and the grass
it doesn't develop the depth of rooting.

1586
01:55:56.159 --> 01:56:00.239
Isn't that interesting that the fact that
the top is growing more means roots grow

1587
01:56:00.359 --> 01:56:04.600
less. But that's what can happen. Nitrofos is not that kind of fertilizer.

1588
01:56:04.640 --> 01:56:09.439
It's available everywhere, and it'll provide
the feed that'll carry all the way

1589
01:56:09.720 --> 01:56:14.319
through your summer season. Were you
listening to garden Line again the number seven

1590
01:56:14.399 --> 01:56:19.399
one three, two one two five
eight seven four seven one three two one

1591
01:56:19.520 --> 01:56:25.439
two fifty eight seventy four. We
will be coming back for our last hour

1592
01:56:25.640 --> 01:56:28.319
this morning. In fact, I
guess you could say the last hour this

1593
01:56:28.439 --> 01:56:30.800
weekend. I hope you have plans
for Dad today. You know me,

1594
01:56:30.920 --> 01:56:33.119
I'm a lot bias, so I
would say, hey, take Dad to

1595
01:56:33.399 --> 01:56:38.319
a garden center, one of the
beautiful garden centers, one of our eight

1596
01:56:38.680 --> 01:56:42.720
supply stores that has all the cool
dad tools that are available there as well.

1597
01:56:43.560 --> 01:56:45.960
You know, I don't know.
Maybe it's maybe you would like to

1598
01:56:45.960 --> 01:56:49.199
take them out to a wild birds
and get some really beautiful bird equipment like

1599
01:56:49.319 --> 01:56:54.479
houses of beaters and things. Lots
of good ideas for gardeners of gardening.

1600
01:56:54.600 --> 01:57:01.920
Dad in your line. We'll be
back soon. Hang around. Ktr H

1601
01:57:02.039 --> 01:57:05.880
Garden Line does not necessarily endorse any
of the products or services advertised on this

1602
01:57:05.960 --> 01:57:21.640
program. Welcome to ktr H Garden
Line with Skip Rector. It's just watching

1603
01:57:23.079 --> 01:57:41.800
as Sony good Sunday morning on a
Father's Day, Sunday, Happy Father's Day.

1604
01:57:41.880 --> 01:57:45.279
All the dad's out there. You're
listening to garden Line and your host

1605
01:57:45.399 --> 01:57:47.560
Skip Rector, and here is the
number if you would like to give us

1606
01:57:47.600 --> 01:57:53.720
a call. Seven one three two
one two five eight seven four seven one

1607
01:57:53.840 --> 01:57:57.840
three two one two fifty eight seventy
four. You know it's blazing hot.

1608
01:57:58.039 --> 01:58:00.720
That's no news, right, it's
blazing hot, and it's going to be

1609
01:58:00.800 --> 01:58:04.600
blazing hot. If you planted a
woody shrub or tree last fall, this

1610
01:58:04.880 --> 01:58:11.039
winter, even this since the spring, it needs to be watered regularly in

1611
01:58:11.239 --> 01:58:15.920
small amounts. Down at the base
where the roots all still are. They're

1612
01:58:15.960 --> 01:58:19.279
working their way out into the soil, but they haven't fully established yet by

1613
01:58:19.279 --> 01:58:23.479
any means, certainly not within the
first year. I fact takes years to

1614
01:58:23.600 --> 01:58:28.119
do that fully. But you can
help them with a tree hugger sprinkler,

1615
01:58:28.239 --> 01:58:31.800
and these are it's an ingenious device. It goes around the tree. You

1616
01:58:31.880 --> 01:58:35.359
hook it up to a garden hose
and you can turn it on low and

1617
01:58:35.520 --> 01:58:40.479
just water the base that original roots
cylinder, which is where most of the

1618
01:58:40.600 --> 01:58:43.479
roots are, and as the tree
grows, you just turn it up more

1619
01:58:43.479 --> 01:58:45.800
and more to where you can water
the whole area underneath the canopy of a

1620
01:58:45.920 --> 01:58:50.199
small medium sized tree with a tree
Hugger sprinkler. There are seven inch versions,

1621
01:58:50.239 --> 01:58:55.119
eleven inch and fifteen inches. Just
go to tree Hugger Sprinklers dot com.

1622
01:58:55.600 --> 01:58:58.560
You're going to find the bit our
independent garden centers. You're going to

1623
01:58:58.600 --> 01:59:01.600
find them at the hardware stores,
the feed stores that we talk about on

1624
01:59:02.560 --> 01:59:09.600
garden Line. Treehever sprinklers very important
for saving that investment, especially during this

1625
01:59:09.720 --> 01:59:15.079
first critical year. We're gonna head
now out to Montgomery and talk to Bill.

1626
01:59:15.920 --> 01:59:21.600
Good morning, Bill, Good morning. I want to well, I

1627
01:59:21.760 --> 01:59:28.720
used to I remember a Manda Villa
vine being real fragrant, like bubble gum.

1628
01:59:29.119 --> 01:59:33.600
Okay, and now they're not anymore. You know, I don't.

1629
01:59:33.760 --> 01:59:39.039
I don't have that memory on Mandavia. So maybe I'm wondering if it was

1630
01:59:39.159 --> 01:59:43.760
something else like that. But if, well, Mom, positive it was.

1631
01:59:43.880 --> 01:59:46.760
I mean, it'll grow up a
chain, you know, thirty forty

1632
01:59:46.840 --> 01:59:54.680
feet if you let it during the
summers. But you used to smell like

1633
01:59:55.239 --> 01:59:58.199
bubble gum. And they don't anymore. Well, I tell you a lot

1634
01:59:58.279 --> 02:00:01.920
of plants is their bread. They
go for features. Maybe other than fragrance.

1635
02:00:01.960 --> 02:00:09.079
You know, the old the old
petunias were fragrant. Grandma's petunias were

1636
02:00:09.119 --> 02:00:12.239
fragrant, and a lot of the
new varieties now that that's kind of been

1637
02:00:12.279 --> 02:00:15.680
bred out of them as they go
for other things like color and size and

1638
02:00:15.800 --> 02:00:19.720
platform. Got Okay, that makes
sense. That's probably what's going on.

1639
02:00:21.520 --> 02:00:25.159
I appreciate it. Hey, Bill, thank you for the call. I

1640
02:00:25.199 --> 02:00:30.239
appreciate that very much. You know, if you are looking for a gift

1641
02:00:30.359 --> 02:00:35.199
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1642
02:00:36.079 --> 02:00:41.680
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1643
02:00:41.720 --> 02:00:45.199
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with your purchase. Let's head out to

1651
02:01:16.239 --> 02:01:21.359
New Caney and we're gonna visit with
Rusty. Good morning, Rusty, good

1652
02:01:21.439 --> 02:01:25.520
morning. I don't believe I even
said my name or where I was,

1653
02:01:25.680 --> 02:01:28.119
but I guess I'm on the record. There we are, there, we

1654
02:01:28.199 --> 02:01:33.920
are. What's up today? I
was just going to talk about the flowers

1655
02:01:34.079 --> 02:01:40.399
and the smells oh good in Houston
on Lavender Street, and that we mother

1656
02:01:40.520 --> 02:01:44.760
had a beautiful gardenium plush out in
the front, and of course she ke

1657
02:01:44.920 --> 02:01:46.720
the cutting and took it, you
know, when we moved out to the

1658
02:01:46.880 --> 02:01:53.279
Tarkington Brewery and that and I have
one, I have two. I have

1659
02:01:53.439 --> 02:01:58.039
one anyway, I have two from
a friend of mine and dear friend Eloise

1660
02:01:58.159 --> 02:02:01.680
Brusar, And uh, you know, I just smelled the smells and I

1661
02:02:02.039 --> 02:02:05.680
think of, you know, the
lovely people in my life. But I've

1662
02:02:05.720 --> 02:02:12.880
also had honeysuckle and then the carolina, the yellow, the smell of that.

1663
02:02:13.119 --> 02:02:15.760
It's you know, it's all in
my woods and I love to walk

1664
02:02:15.800 --> 02:02:19.560
through the woods to smell that.
It is nice to enjoy those fragrances,

1665
02:02:19.680 --> 02:02:23.880
isn't it. Yeah, that's that's
an important part of guarding. Thank you

1666
02:02:24.039 --> 02:02:29.159
for all of that information on memories
and flowers and fragrances that you have.

1667
02:02:29.279 --> 02:02:32.840
I appreciate that. Rusty, could
I give ask one question you bat go

1668
02:02:32.920 --> 02:02:38.840
ahead, Okay, So in my
garden is growing well, but all of

1669
02:02:38.920 --> 02:02:44.359
a sudden, one of the tomato
plants up towards the top like a lemb

1670
02:02:44.479 --> 02:02:48.640
or two just completely wilted. None
of the other plants in the row,

1671
02:02:49.520 --> 02:02:54.760
not even the rest of that plant. Um, I thought, I have.

1672
02:02:55.680 --> 02:03:01.000
I took wire and made like a
trough and upside downfall well noe like

1673
02:03:01.119 --> 02:03:06.119
you would have a trough, uh, and um planted tomatus under it and

1674
02:03:06.159 --> 02:03:12.680
they grow up through this wire okay
and lay up there. Could that wire

1675
02:03:12.800 --> 02:03:15.800
be? But it seemed like if
it was going to kill that one,

1676
02:03:15.840 --> 02:03:19.319
it or hurt that one. Well, if anything that damages the flow from

1677
02:03:19.359 --> 02:03:23.159
water of water and nutrients up through
the plant, you know, damage to

1678
02:03:23.359 --> 02:03:27.640
stem or something could do that.
Also though there's some diseases and the soil

1679
02:03:27.960 --> 02:03:30.960
that can cause that. They may
affect certain roots as they progress their way

1680
02:03:30.960 --> 02:03:35.079
across the plant. You eventually lose
the whole plant. But I would watch

1681
02:03:35.199 --> 02:03:39.600
it and see there's no control for
those. But if it keeps progressing,

1682
02:03:40.039 --> 02:03:42.600
go ahead and pull those out of
there, those plants that are affected,

1683
02:03:42.680 --> 02:03:45.880
or the plant that's affected out of
there, because there's not a cure for

1684
02:03:45.039 --> 02:03:49.319
it. It's a wilt fungal wilt
disease of the soil, or there's also

1685
02:03:49.359 --> 02:03:54.520
a bacterial version as well. All
right, okay, I have I have

1686
02:03:54.720 --> 02:04:00.760
heard that you could plant um oh
it's a bean in a night movie.

1687
02:04:00.159 --> 02:04:06.600
It's in the wintertime, okay,
almost, and that would clear the soil

1688
02:04:06.760 --> 02:04:11.079
of will you Now, I don't
know about that one. I'll have to

1689
02:04:11.159 --> 02:04:14.760
look into that, but I'll check
it out. But hey, I appreciate

1690
02:04:14.840 --> 02:04:16.520
so much you call in this morning. Thank you very much. We're going

1691
02:04:16.600 --> 02:04:20.199
to be heading to break here in
just a moment. If you are an

1692
02:04:20.239 --> 02:04:25.640
active adult fifty five and better and
you're looking for a new community, you'd

1693
02:04:25.680 --> 02:04:29.479
like to move, you'd like to
find a place for retirement years. That's

1694
02:04:29.560 --> 02:04:31.279
not just you know, a place
to go out to pasture, but a

1695
02:04:31.399 --> 02:04:39.119
place that you have an active lifestyle
with lifestyle programs designed for you. You

1696
02:04:39.239 --> 02:04:43.680
know, just an enjoyable, beautiful, state of the art community. That's

1697
02:04:43.800 --> 02:04:46.960
Dell Weeb. Now there's a new
Dell weeb out in full Sure FM three

1698
02:04:47.079 --> 02:04:51.800
fifty nine with two miles from downtown
Full Shure, and they've got a community

1699
02:04:51.920 --> 02:04:57.119
garden going in and I'm helping them
with that. And so I cannot imagine

1700
02:04:57.479 --> 02:05:00.720
a better setup than to have a
Dell Web community live in the programs that

1701
02:05:00.800 --> 02:05:05.279
are designed around you for Dellweb,
and then a community garden also to be

1702
02:05:05.319 --> 02:05:10.279
able to enjoy. Go to dellweb
dot com slash Houston for more information or

1703
02:05:10.319 --> 02:05:14.760
called two eight one four to five
nine zero six zero nine. When we

1704
02:05:14.880 --> 02:05:17.279
come back from break a Bill,
you will be first up the number seven

1705
02:05:17.359 --> 02:05:39.000
one three two one two fifty eight
seventy four Crazy stay Jomp morning, Good

1706
02:05:39.039 --> 02:05:44.039
Father's Day morning on a beautiful Sunday. As off, it really looks awesome.

1707
02:05:44.880 --> 02:05:46.960
Hey. You know, one of
the one of the tasks of summer

1708
02:05:47.119 --> 02:05:51.079
is keeping our lawns alive by watering
them when it doesn't rain. Now,

1709
02:05:51.119 --> 02:05:55.119
we tend to over water here in
Houston, and I've just seen it all

1710
02:05:55.159 --> 02:05:58.000
the time, people that think you
need to water three times a week and

1711
02:05:58.119 --> 02:06:00.319
it or more and it's just not
necessary. In fact, I water my

1712
02:06:00.439 --> 02:06:03.399
lawn once a week. Good deep
soaking is what it takes well, how

1713
02:06:03.399 --> 02:06:06.960
do you know into water. Well, there's an app called water my Yard.

1714
02:06:08.039 --> 02:06:13.279
It's go online to water my yard
dot org, dot org dot com

1715
02:06:13.720 --> 02:06:15.960
and you can find it on the
Apple Store the app as well, or

1716
02:06:16.000 --> 02:06:18.760
you can find it out Google Play. But this app, you sign up,

1717
02:06:18.840 --> 02:06:21.960
you tell them where you live,
you know, give them the location

1718
02:06:23.640 --> 02:06:29.199
and it's free, by the way, and they measure the weather factors like

1719
02:06:29.399 --> 02:06:33.800
humidity, windspeed, solar intensity,
temperature, so on, and it crunches

1720
02:06:33.840 --> 02:06:39.039
it out. They know exactly what
grass uses in terms of how hot it

1721
02:06:39.119 --> 02:06:42.279
gets in all those other factors.
And you'll get an email if you'd like

1722
02:06:42.359 --> 02:06:44.720
to have them send you a weekly
email. It comes in and it says,

1723
02:06:44.760 --> 02:06:45.800
hey, you need a half inch
water this week, you need a

1724
02:06:45.880 --> 02:06:49.840
one inch water this week. And
it makes it very simple. It also

1725
02:06:49.960 --> 02:06:57.720
helps prevent extra runoff into Galveston Bay. It helps reduce subsidence by not pumping.

1726
02:06:57.800 --> 02:07:01.279
So Dad gut much water to keep
our lawns happy and going water myyard

1727
02:07:01.359 --> 02:07:04.399
dot org. It just makes a
lot of sense. Let's head up to

1728
02:07:04.520 --> 02:07:10.600
Bill in Conrow and Bill, how
are you doing this morning? Um?

1729
02:07:11.079 --> 02:07:15.600
Good, Brandy, Randy, that's
okay. I'll take that as a compliment

1730
02:07:15.640 --> 02:07:19.840
in the past, I'll take that, thank you. A couple of years

1731
02:07:19.840 --> 02:07:23.840
ago I got a couple of drift
rows as an apricot and a popcorn,

1732
02:07:24.039 --> 02:07:29.960
and they've been doing great until this
year. The popcorn is not doing well

1733
02:07:30.000 --> 02:07:33.720
at all. It's got yellowing leaves
that they're not as big as they should

1734
02:07:33.760 --> 02:07:39.359
be there. The edges are browning
and breaking off. It's still flowering interest,

1735
02:07:40.039 --> 02:07:46.119
but I'm not quite sure why they're
planted together. So okay, there's

1736
02:07:46.159 --> 02:07:49.960
no difference in the soil or what
then doing in treatment, so it could

1737
02:07:50.000 --> 02:07:54.359
be a couple of things. My
first thoughts are it's a sole moisture thing,

1738
02:07:54.520 --> 02:07:58.239
and I don't know why one plant
would be showing the symptoms and the

1739
02:07:58.279 --> 02:08:01.560
other one not. But when you
see burning on the edges of leaves,

1740
02:08:01.680 --> 02:08:05.960
either you put too much fertilizer and
the salts burn the roots and that takes

1741
02:08:05.119 --> 02:08:11.399
a pretty heavy dose of a salt
based fertilizer, or it's a water issue

1742
02:08:11.600 --> 02:08:15.880
going on and sometimes it gets too
wet and reachs dye and then that follows

1743
02:08:15.920 --> 02:08:18.640
with drought symptoms, because if you
don't have roots, you end up with

1744
02:08:18.720 --> 02:08:22.520
drought symptoms, whether as soil as
moist or not, or it could be

1745
02:08:22.079 --> 02:08:26.399
a dry period in this world,
or it could be something physically damaging the

1746
02:08:26.520 --> 02:08:30.640
root system, you know, something
chewing on the roots. But it's just

1747
02:08:30.840 --> 02:08:33.560
not that common with roses. Drift
is they can be a little prone to

1748
02:08:33.840 --> 02:08:37.479
black spot, some disease issues,
depending on which particular one you get,

1749
02:08:39.199 --> 02:08:43.039
and some of the older yellowing leaves
could be just some latent fungus problems that

1750
02:08:43.159 --> 02:08:46.920
have just those are the leaves that
have had it the lot, been there

1751
02:08:46.000 --> 02:08:50.520
the longest, so they're the ones
that are most progressed in terms of having

1752
02:08:50.600 --> 02:08:56.399
issues. When you let me ask
you this, when you water, is

1753
02:08:56.439 --> 02:09:01.560
there any chance that maybe a sprinkler
hits the book that is showing the problems

1754
02:09:01.760 --> 02:09:07.199
more than it would the other one. No, they're really close together.

1755
02:09:07.439 --> 02:09:11.840
Okay, okay, they're they're in
three and three in different sections. So

1756
02:09:13.079 --> 02:09:16.920
I got some sections. Yeah,
so you know this is where's something going

1757
02:09:16.960 --> 02:09:18.039
on with I don't know, Yeah, Bill, I don't know. I

1758
02:09:18.119 --> 02:09:22.079
might I might try some fun your
side praise for a little while and just

1759
02:09:22.279 --> 02:09:24.479
see if you can get ahead of
that. I noticed that each of the

1760
02:09:24.640 --> 02:09:30.680
drifts is different than the others,
and even in growth, habit and certainly

1761
02:09:30.760 --> 02:09:35.279
disease acceptibility and things, so that
may be part of what's going on.

1762
02:09:35.840 --> 02:09:39.960
Makes sense, makes sense from what
I'm seeing and the location of them.

1763
02:09:39.239 --> 02:09:43.319
Okay, we'll give that a try
and go from there. Um, thanks

1764
02:09:43.319 --> 02:09:48.119
a lot, I appreciate, thank
you for the call. Man. Uh,

1765
02:09:48.439 --> 02:09:52.720
you know, if you are interested
in putting in a new roof,

1766
02:09:52.880 --> 02:09:56.279
if you're a roof is aged,
if you if you would like to take

1767
02:09:56.359 --> 02:09:58.119
things up a step, maybe you've
thought about putting a solar panel on the

1768
02:09:58.159 --> 02:10:03.560
house to you save on the electrical
bills. Well, Brinkman Roofing has a

1769
02:10:03.720 --> 02:10:07.960
timberline solar shingle. So that's not
sitting on the roof, not one of

1770
02:10:09.000 --> 02:10:11.720
those big old panels up on top
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1771
02:10:11.840 --> 02:10:16.720
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1772
02:10:16.880 --> 02:10:20.960
a good deal is that Brinkman has
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1773
02:10:22.039 --> 02:10:26.800
in fact fifty years here in this
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1774
02:10:26.880 --> 02:10:31.800
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1775
02:10:31.920 --> 02:10:37.199
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1776
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If you'd like one of those,
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1777
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1778
02:10:45.560 --> 02:10:48.680
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1779
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1780
02:10:54.560 --> 02:11:01.319
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1781
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1782
02:11:07.640 --> 02:11:13.199
six three. We more than once
have had to put a roof on a

1783
02:11:13.279 --> 02:11:16.680
house, and I'm telling you the
typical way that happens is here comes a

1784
02:11:16.760 --> 02:11:20.399
hail storm and then here comes to
people knocking on the door that don't live

1785
02:11:20.479 --> 02:11:24.359
here. They drive all over the
country following the latest storm, and that's

1786
02:11:24.399 --> 02:11:30.079
how they make their living. You
want somebody who lives here and who keeps

1787
02:11:30.600 --> 02:11:35.640
local people happy. That's how they
stay in business. If you haven't fertilized

1788
02:11:35.640 --> 02:11:37.159
your lawn in a while, it's
a good time to get out and do

1789
02:11:37.319 --> 02:11:41.319
that kind of thing. I've been
talking about that this morning. But if

1790
02:11:41.359 --> 02:11:46.439
you're putting in new plants, let's
say vegetable garden plants or flower bed plants,

1791
02:11:46.560 --> 02:11:50.600
or maybe you're planning a new shrub. Think about has to Grow by

1792
02:11:50.680 --> 02:11:56.199
Medina. That's a six twelve six
formula extra phosphorus in it to help support

1793
02:11:56.560 --> 02:12:01.680
that early roof, developed root development, and just ensure a really healthy plan.

1794
02:12:01.399 --> 02:12:05.680
Now that particular has to Grow six
twelve six has got Medina soil activator

1795
02:12:05.760 --> 02:12:11.039
in it in addition to the nutrients
to help stimulate that biological activity. It's

1796
02:12:11.079 --> 02:12:15.640
got hu humic acid in it to
help improve the soul structure and even seaweed

1797
02:12:15.800 --> 02:12:20.800
extracts to which stimulate the fruiting and
the blooming. It's good for a foliar

1798
02:12:20.840 --> 02:12:24.279
application. I like to use it
just in watering in plants. It's got

1799
02:12:24.319 --> 02:12:28.119
a little handy measuring cup attached to
the court bottle there, makes it real

1800
02:12:28.199 --> 02:12:31.039
easy. Or you can do a
hose in sprayer if you want. Has

1801
02:12:31.119 --> 02:12:37.119
to Grow by Medina six twelve six
excellent product and very successful with that.

1802
02:12:37.119 --> 02:12:41.039
Well, it's Father's Day Sunday.
I hope you got some plans for getting

1803
02:12:41.119 --> 02:12:45.239
dad out and getting some things for
dad. If you live down in the

1804
02:12:45.359 --> 02:12:50.359
Fort Bayang County area, you probably
have known about Enchanted Forest for a while.

1805
02:12:50.479 --> 02:12:56.079
Enchanted Forest is the Enchanted nursery that
is toward sugar Land from Richmond,

1806
02:12:56.199 --> 02:13:01.720
a little south of fifty nine.
They just absolutely have a wonderful place.

1807
02:13:01.840 --> 02:13:05.239
It's one of the show places.
I mean, you drive up and it

1808
02:13:05.399 --> 02:13:09.439
just looks fun. It just looks
cool. The color is everywhere. By

1809
02:13:09.479 --> 02:13:13.159
the way, they carry the proven
winners Salvia namurosa, which is called meadow

1810
02:13:13.239 --> 02:13:18.520
sage. Ask to see that when
you get there. They've got a violet

1811
02:13:18.640 --> 02:13:22.760
riot an end to glow girl funny
name, and a pink dawn and a

1812
02:13:22.840 --> 02:13:28.159
white one called snow kiss. Those
make excellent border plants. A very short

1813
02:13:28.279 --> 02:13:31.880
statured maybe eighteen inches or so high. As they grow the blooms that is

1814
02:13:31.199 --> 02:13:35.960
foliage is even lower than that.
Just really easy. But when you're Enchanted

1815
02:13:37.039 --> 02:13:41.960
Forest, you're going to find all
kinds of cool stuff from tallivera water watering

1816
02:13:41.039 --> 02:13:46.039
fountains, to tools to wind chimes
to hey, it'll be easy buying for

1817
02:13:46.159 --> 02:13:50.600
dad it Enchanted Forest. You can
find them online. I like to go

1818
02:13:50.760 --> 02:13:56.880
to their social media page a Facebook
page or Instagram. Enchanted Forest down in

1819
02:13:58.199 --> 02:14:03.439
the Richmond area. Head out.
Now we're going to go to Frank out

1820
02:14:03.520 --> 02:14:07.680
east of Baytown. Good morning,
Frank, Good morning for Skip. How

1821
02:14:07.720 --> 02:14:11.399
can we have a prom it it's
going to be hot? Oh yes,

1822
02:14:11.479 --> 02:14:16.680
my goodness. I've got a yard
that is taken over by Virginia button weed,

1823
02:14:16.920 --> 02:14:22.640
okay, and another similar grass.
It's so it's similar, but it

1824
02:14:22.760 --> 02:14:28.600
has more of a Star of David
flower on it. Okay. I was

1825
02:14:28.720 --> 02:14:35.279
wondering about using actressine. I would
not do that right now. I don't

1826
02:14:35.279 --> 02:14:39.079
think you're going to get the effect, especially on the Virginia button weed.

1827
02:14:39.199 --> 02:14:43.479
We've gotten really high. Attrazine is
great as a pre emergent, and it

1828
02:14:43.600 --> 02:14:46.640
has some post emergent activity as well. Um. You know, Randy never

1829
02:14:46.720 --> 02:14:50.560
did recommend it, and I tend
to stay away from it myself for some

1830
02:14:50.760 --> 02:14:54.159
of the issues that it can cause
for the woody ornamental plants that you might

1831
02:14:54.239 --> 02:14:56.920
have in the area, as well
as the fact that it it can wash

1832
02:14:56.000 --> 02:14:58.960
off. It may be a problem. I think what you may want to

1833
02:15:00.079 --> 02:15:01.680
do, Frank at this point,
because it's gotten so hot, is to

1834
02:15:01.760 --> 02:15:07.359
find a product called celsius, like
fahrenheit and celsius. I've got some,

1835
02:15:09.680 --> 02:15:16.840
yes, now, Virginia buttonweed.
There's no quick fix miracle cure number one.

1836
02:15:16.239 --> 02:15:20.039
You want to do everything you can
to let that sell dry out a

1837
02:15:20.119 --> 02:15:24.560
lot as often as you can.
The wetter it stays, the more Virginia

1838
02:15:24.640 --> 02:15:30.800
button weed just proliferates. It's like
rocket the constant moistures rocket fuel virginia button

1839
02:15:30.880 --> 02:15:33.880
meat. So you want to let
it dry out, don't water very often,

1840
02:15:33.000 --> 02:15:37.279
like I was talking about before.
Secondly, if you use a product

1841
02:15:37.359 --> 02:15:39.920
like Celsius, you want to start
early in the season when you first see

1842
02:15:41.000 --> 02:15:43.039
some growth on the Virginia button weed. Hit it then, because you're gonna

1843
02:15:43.039 --> 02:15:46.279
have to hit it again about three
or four weeks later. Went to knock

1844
02:15:46.319 --> 02:15:50.680
it back another time and get ahead
of it. We're hitting a point now

1845
02:15:50.720 --> 02:15:54.920
where it's so hot that I'm even
get a little nervous about celsius. Once

1846
02:15:54.960 --> 02:15:56.840
one hundred degrees, I don't think
I would do that. But when the

1847
02:15:56.920 --> 02:16:01.079
temperature breaks a little bit, get
up really early in the morning and do

1848
02:16:01.199 --> 02:16:05.840
it, or maybe really really late
in the day, do a shot of

1849
02:16:05.920 --> 02:16:07.680
the celsius and see if you can
start to get the upper hand. But

1850
02:16:07.840 --> 02:16:13.199
remember you're in it for a little
bit of a battle. Okay, Well,

1851
02:16:13.199 --> 02:16:18.000
I've got a new yard and I
have weeds that I really I cannot

1852
02:16:18.079 --> 02:16:22.680
identify. Well, here you go, but this is my worst Well okay,

1853
02:16:22.880 --> 02:16:24.760
that is one of the worst that
we have here. So you are

1854
02:16:24.840 --> 02:16:28.279
not alone. I don't know if
misery loves company or not, but you're

1855
02:16:28.399 --> 02:16:33.680
not alone with the Virginia button weeed
issues. That's for sure. What you

1856
02:16:33.799 --> 02:16:41.159
spoke earlier with another fellow about the
msmum, I plan to use that for

1857
02:16:41.920 --> 02:16:46.120
behail here starting next year. Okay, but with that have any effect on

1858
02:16:46.719 --> 02:16:50.440
the button wheat? I'm sorry I
lost the word of the product you're talking

1859
02:16:50.479 --> 02:16:58.440
about, the ms Oh, MSM, I don't you know? It probably

1860
02:16:58.520 --> 02:17:03.159
would and ms you can get you
can get up in the nineties with it

1861
02:17:03.319 --> 02:17:09.239
as well. It's typically sold.
MSM is one form typically sold in larger

1862
02:17:09.360 --> 02:17:13.639
quantities. There's one call manner M
A n O R that's made for turf

1863
02:17:13.799 --> 02:17:18.319
also that is it's gonna be a
little hard to find, but that would

1864
02:17:18.319 --> 02:17:22.159
be another option. But really,
Frank, just read the label. Read

1865
02:17:22.200 --> 02:17:24.239
the label. That's the law.
Hey, I'm gonna have to take a

1866
02:17:24.319 --> 02:17:28.200
break, but I appreciate your call. Thank you very much. Give us

1867
02:17:28.200 --> 02:17:48.239
a call seven one three two one
two fifty eight seventy four. Well,

1868
02:17:48.360 --> 02:17:52.879
good Sunday morning on a Father's Day, Sunday. Beautiful outside, absolutely beautiful

1869
02:17:52.920 --> 02:17:56.559
outside. I hope you're planning on
getting out a little bit with Dad today.

1870
02:17:56.200 --> 02:18:01.159
We're gonna head right to the phone
calls. This our our last segment.

1871
02:18:01.200 --> 02:18:03.440
We've got here, last two segments, and we're gonna go to Montgomery

1872
02:18:03.559 --> 02:18:09.040
and talk to Jim. Hello,
Jim, Hey, happy Father's Day.

1873
02:18:09.239 --> 02:18:16.000
Well, I've got some plants and
a tree that brings back some memories when

1874
02:18:16.040 --> 02:18:20.680
I was a kid. Uh,
it's actually three different ones, but I

1875
02:18:20.799 --> 02:18:24.799
figured i'd get those in because nobody
else is calling in about it. And

1876
02:18:26.200 --> 02:18:30.799
uh, this magnolia tree, which
smells like a guardenia to me. And

1877
02:18:31.360 --> 02:18:35.239
oh yeah, Azelias always reminded me. We had the old azalias I grew

1878
02:18:35.319 --> 02:18:41.799
up in southern Louisiana and the old
man, I mean, the old azelias,

1879
02:18:41.840 --> 02:18:45.479
the purple ones in the Indica that
gets real big. That was the

1880
02:18:45.559 --> 02:18:50.159
one that reminds me of Easter.
And then me and my brother we had

1881
02:18:50.200 --> 02:18:54.879
an attic fan and outside my window
in my room, I had a trellis

1882
02:18:54.920 --> 02:19:01.000
that grew up over it and it
was full of whistia purple whistia, and

1883
02:19:01.959 --> 02:19:03.760
we would turn the attic fan on
and close all the doors in the house

1884
02:19:03.840 --> 02:19:09.479
except for what led out to the
hallway where the attic fan was, and

1885
02:19:09.559 --> 02:19:13.680
would crank open these windows and then
inhale that intoxicating smell of the wisteria,

1886
02:19:13.879 --> 02:19:18.200
like it just really was heavy duty, and went to the entire house.

1887
02:19:18.680 --> 02:19:24.879
It isn't it amazing how our scent
memories are so vivid? Right every time

1888
02:19:24.879 --> 02:19:28.120
I smelled on a zelia, I
think of eastern Louisiana. There you go,

1889
02:19:28.520 --> 02:19:33.360
that's nice. But I also called
about my ficus. I have a

1890
02:19:33.399 --> 02:19:37.319
fiddle leaf ficus. Actually I have
three or four of them, but I'm

1891
02:19:37.360 --> 02:19:41.559
trying to I had to print it
back last year because it wouldn't fit in

1892
02:19:41.639 --> 02:19:48.399
the greenhouse. It's getting over sixteen
feet tall. And I tried to root

1893
02:19:48.440 --> 02:19:52.120
out the cuttings and they didn't taken. I don't know what the deal was.

1894
02:19:52.440 --> 02:19:56.799
And I heard something somewhere down the
line that you have to air layer

1895
02:19:56.879 --> 02:19:58.440
them. Is that true? Well, I don't know if you have to,

1896
02:19:58.680 --> 02:20:03.719
but I've never tried rooting a cutting
from a fiddle efig. But if

1897
02:20:03.799 --> 02:20:05.600
you air layer. For those of
you who are listening, who don't know

1898
02:20:05.639 --> 02:20:09.079
what that is. It's removing a
strip of bark. Just think of it

1899
02:20:09.200 --> 02:20:13.479
like a ring of bark taken off
on the branch and then you put potting

1900
02:20:13.520 --> 02:20:18.920
soil or sphagnum moss or something around
that, wrap it with plastic and seal

1901
02:20:20.000 --> 02:20:22.639
it up and roots will grow in
that area. It also helps to dust

1902
02:20:22.719 --> 02:20:26.159
it with a little bit of a
hormone, rooting hormone. But just see

1903
02:20:26.200 --> 02:20:30.239
the roots on the outside of the
plastic. That shows you it's time.

1904
02:20:30.280 --> 02:20:33.040
You can cut it off the momb
plant and take it and pot it up.

1905
02:20:33.120 --> 02:20:37.319
And that is how I would root
a fiddle e fig. If there's

1906
02:20:37.360 --> 02:20:39.760
somebody I do that. I normally
do that with other plants. I have

1907
02:20:39.879 --> 02:20:43.719
no problem with it. This is
the only one that seems to not take.

1908
02:20:43.879 --> 02:20:46.959
And I use the rooting the root
tone hormone. I've even tried to

1909
02:20:48.000 --> 02:20:50.280
do it in the water, you
know, and that didn't work either.

1910
02:20:50.760 --> 02:20:54.280
I don't know. Like I said, I'll give it to try with the

1911
02:20:54.319 --> 02:20:58.319
air layering, but you have to
have it where you can put some moisture

1912
02:20:58.399 --> 02:21:01.239
in there before you wrap it up
with plastic, right, Yeah, I

1913
02:21:01.440 --> 02:21:05.239
usually use I mean there's there are
actually a little things you can buy that

1914
02:21:05.319 --> 02:21:09.799
you clip on a plant that do
the air layering thing that you just have

1915
02:21:09.920 --> 02:21:13.959
to go switch for that. But
I usually use just some very moist spagnum

1916
02:21:13.000 --> 02:21:16.559
moss. Wrap it around and then
a bread wrapper or something like a clear

1917
02:21:16.680 --> 02:21:20.159
plastic. Put a twist tie at
the bottom, a twist tie at the

1918
02:21:20.200 --> 02:21:24.600
top, and then you can watch
it and you undo the top twist tie

1919
02:21:24.680 --> 02:21:28.280
and trickle a little water in there
periodically to keep it moist. That's how

1920
02:21:28.319 --> 02:21:31.479
I would go about it, and
I think that's your best shot. How

1921
02:21:31.479 --> 02:21:37.479
about spraying the leaves above that with
some of that medina that's folio, Well,

1922
02:21:37.520 --> 02:21:41.479
it wouldn't hurt to do that.
I don't know that that would help

1923
02:21:41.559 --> 02:21:46.079
with the rooting though. I don't
know that it would have an effect on

1924
02:21:46.159 --> 02:21:48.959
it rooting. I just hated to
lose all those cuttings. But yeah,

1925
02:21:50.239 --> 02:21:52.799
I'll give it an air layer in
a track that it's coming back so strong,

1926
02:21:52.879 --> 02:21:58.360
I gotta I gotta whack it back
again before as well. That sounds

1927
02:21:58.200 --> 02:22:03.239
sounds like a thank you, thanks
a lot man. Appreciate that call,

1928
02:22:03.399 --> 02:22:07.200
Jim, thank you very much.
You know, if you are looking for

1929
02:22:07.000 --> 02:22:13.559
anything that you need for the garden
for outdoors. Maybe it's maybe it's the

1930
02:22:13.639 --> 02:22:16.840
fertilizers we talk about here. Maybe
it is some outdoor furniture, some outdoor

1931
02:22:16.879 --> 02:22:20.319
decor. Maybe it's a grill.
Oh boy, here we are in the

1932
02:22:20.360 --> 02:22:26.840
big grilling season. Ace Hardware has
grills on steroids. I mean that is

1933
02:22:26.920 --> 02:22:31.479
like the place and everything you can
imagine that goes with outdoor grilling. They

1934
02:22:31.600 --> 02:22:35.879
have all the supplies there, So
haul dead, buy an ACE Hardware and

1935
02:22:35.920 --> 02:22:37.520
take check that out. While you're
at ACE. By the way, you

1936
02:22:37.600 --> 02:22:43.239
can earn money on your purchases.
Do the ACE Rewards program. Definitely sign

1937
02:22:43.360 --> 02:22:46.280
up for that because I belong to
it, and you know, whether I'm

1938
02:22:46.319 --> 02:22:48.760
going really often or just going occasionally, it adds up and it's well worth

1939
02:22:48.840 --> 02:22:52.559
it. Go to ACE Hardware dot
com and check on the store locator to

1940
02:22:52.719 --> 02:22:56.879
find the ACE Hardware store that's closest
to you, and there's ACE Hardware all

1941
02:22:56.920 --> 02:23:01.840
over the place, with thirty nine
of them here locally. Let's go to

1942
02:23:01.079 --> 02:23:05.399
West Chase now and we're going to
talk to Sharon. Hello, Sharon,

1943
02:23:05.719 --> 02:23:11.079
Hi, Skip, Thanks. I
want to thank you for having Scott on

1944
02:23:11.559 --> 02:23:15.559
to tell us about Starboat mission and
I missed his last name. What's his

1945
02:23:15.680 --> 02:23:20.120
last name, Scott Arthur, Arthur
Arthur. Okay, yeah, he's doing

1946
02:23:20.159 --> 02:23:26.799
a great job. And I didn't
realize how broad and how deep their their

1947
02:23:26.879 --> 02:23:30.719
ministry and their help goes throughout the
city of Houston. So I was really

1948
02:23:30.799 --> 02:23:33.680
happy to hear that. Now.
Also enjoyed hearing y'all interact together. And

1949
02:23:33.760 --> 02:23:39.719
I'm thinking, you know, they
both obviously had the gift of help and

1950
02:23:39.920 --> 02:23:43.120
of compassion. And I was thinking
and just like he wrapped it up at

1951
02:23:43.159 --> 02:23:50.520
the end, I was thinking the
same thing. Both do strategic help in

1952
02:23:50.799 --> 02:23:54.879
preparing the soil. He does it
with the first of minds of men and

1953
02:23:54.159 --> 02:23:58.920
women, and you do it with
plants, like back to the basic foundation

1954
02:24:00.879 --> 02:24:05.680
of what God has created here on
the Earth's forest. And so I really

1955
02:24:05.840 --> 02:24:09.079
enjoyed y'all's conversation, and I enjoyed
hearing about Star of Hope. So thanks

1956
02:24:09.120 --> 02:24:13.680
for having him on. And um, I like what he said, what

1957
02:24:13.959 --> 02:24:18.840
was it? Wait, don't be
curious, No, don't be curious,

1958
02:24:18.040 --> 02:24:24.680
not judgmental. That's right. That
actually curious because everyone has a story.

1959
02:24:24.920 --> 02:24:28.840
That's right. And anybody who's watched
Ted Lasso, that's a real popular series.

1960
02:24:28.399 --> 02:24:33.200
There's a clip scene from there where
he's playing darts and everyone has judged

1961
02:24:33.280 --> 02:24:37.520
him. And I don't want to
explain the whole clip, but that's that's

1962
02:24:37.600 --> 02:24:39.600
the money line in it. Be
curious, not judgmental. And I'm telling

1963
02:24:39.680 --> 02:24:43.440
you there's so many places in life. Doesn't mean you have to agree with

1964
02:24:43.559 --> 02:24:48.440
someone you don't agree with, you
know, It just means listen and think,

1965
02:24:48.680 --> 02:24:52.000
just be curious and then you can
Well, that's about preparing the soil

1966
02:24:52.079 --> 02:24:54.360
too, And that's what Jesus did. He tells that parable of the soils.

1967
02:24:54.399 --> 02:24:58.040
That's what I was thinking about,
and how you prepared and you helped

1968
02:24:58.079 --> 02:25:03.840
prepare the soil to nourish the plants. And He helps to prepare soils in

1969
02:25:05.040 --> 02:25:07.280
men's hearts and minds. And it's
God that does the work. He d

1970
02:25:07.440 --> 02:25:13.680
does the restoration and the growth,
and but we can all be helpful in

1971
02:25:13.799 --> 02:25:18.120
preparing soils. Sharon, thank you, I appreciate I appreciate the call.

1972
02:25:18.239 --> 02:25:22.399
Anybody who's interested again in Star Hope, it's so oh mission dot org dot

1973
02:25:22.440 --> 02:25:26.879
com. S oh mission dot org
and thank you, Sharon. We appreciate

1974
02:25:26.959 --> 02:25:31.120
that call. We're gonna take a
break now, do a little bit of

1975
02:25:31.159 --> 02:25:35.559
news and whatnot. But for now
I just dial seven one three two one

1976
02:25:35.680 --> 02:25:39.319
two five eight seven four. Josh, we'll get you on the board.

1977
02:25:39.639 --> 02:25:43.360
Got one segment left for this weekend. We'd love to visit with you about

1978
02:25:43.360 --> 02:26:05.120
what you're interested in. Good Sunday
morning on a Father's Day. Sunday morning,

1979
02:26:07.120 --> 02:26:11.159
Happy Father's date. All the dad's
out there. You're listening to Gardenline.

1980
02:26:11.559 --> 02:26:13.440
I'm your host, Skip Rector our
phone number seven one three two one

1981
02:26:13.520 --> 02:26:18.520
two fifty eight seventy four. We
are going to head out now to Missouri

1982
02:26:18.680 --> 02:26:22.159
City and visit with Paul. Hello, Paul, Yeah, Hello Skip.

1983
02:26:24.159 --> 02:26:28.840
Last week you had to sell on
talking about The discussion was mosquitoes. Yes,

1984
02:26:31.000 --> 02:26:33.200
And earlier in the week, I
was talking to my daughter as she

1985
02:26:33.319 --> 02:26:37.639
was complaining about the mosquitoes up there
in spring. So she said, a

1986
02:26:37.760 --> 02:26:46.360
friend of hers they bought some bulch
that was soaked in citronella, and I'd

1987
02:26:46.399 --> 02:26:50.079
like to get your pros and cons. I'm putting that entirely into flower bed.

1988
02:26:50.920 --> 02:26:58.360
Well. I suppose it would give
some repellency for a while. That

1989
02:26:58.799 --> 02:27:01.799
is a pretty volatile oil, and
I don't expect that would hold on for

1990
02:27:01.959 --> 02:27:05.840
a long term. Help. But
you know, I could see a little

1991
02:27:05.920 --> 02:27:09.559
you know, you I could put
the citronella candles out and he keeps them

1992
02:27:09.600 --> 02:27:11.959
away from the citronella candles. Or
if you're sitting in a whole bunch of

1993
02:27:13.040 --> 02:27:16.840
candles or torches with citronella oil,
you know, you can kind of keep

1994
02:27:16.920 --> 02:27:20.360
them out of the immediate region,
right like that. But I think probably

1995
02:27:20.360 --> 02:27:24.760
you're gonna have to go with other
other approaches for longer term plan on mosquitoes.

1996
02:27:26.799 --> 02:27:30.120
Yeah, okay, okay, very
good. I'll share that with her.

1997
02:27:30.479 --> 02:27:33.040
Now, one other quick question.
What did he say? What was

1998
02:27:33.120 --> 02:27:41.680
the male mosquito role in h on
all this? The males they don't feed

1999
02:27:41.719 --> 02:27:43.920
on us. They're just there to
mate with the females, and so you'll

2000
02:27:45.040 --> 02:27:48.000
you'll see them going around and in
everything, but that they're not the ones

2001
02:27:48.120 --> 02:27:52.280
that are getting the blood meal.
To my knowledge, I'm trying to remembers

2002
02:27:52.280 --> 02:27:56.319
the guy from Mosquito Ducks that was
talking, and I'm trying to remember exactly

2003
02:27:56.399 --> 02:28:01.280
what he said. I am definitely
not an entomologist, especially in the all

2004
02:28:01.360 --> 02:28:05.719
right, I just need to go
on high level anyway. There you go,

2005
02:28:05.920 --> 02:28:11.520
well, rightfully, high level response. Thanks Paul, appreciate the call.

2006
02:28:11.760 --> 02:28:15.879
Let's head out to Huffman and talk
to Cooper. Hello Cooper, Hey,

2007
02:28:15.959 --> 02:28:20.000
how you doing, sir? Oh? When I'm walking through my beautiful

2008
02:28:20.079 --> 02:28:24.159
front yard, I got these little
white flies popping up. I guess they're

2009
02:28:24.200 --> 02:28:26.120
fo I don't know what they are. They're a little big, little like

2010
02:28:26.520 --> 02:28:30.920
gnats, but they're white. And
I know I've heard something back in the

2011
02:28:31.079 --> 02:28:33.399
Randy days about them, and I
didn't pay attention because I didn't have them.

2012
02:28:33.479 --> 02:28:37.319
So what are they? And what
do I do to fix this?

2013
02:28:37.600 --> 02:28:41.440
So? White flies are little tiny
white things. You're a little bigger than

2014
02:28:41.559 --> 02:28:46.360
nat, but not much. They're
a little bit and they fly around and

2015
02:28:46.479 --> 02:28:54.399
people notice that your nose. That's
true. They have they lay eggs,

2016
02:28:54.479 --> 02:28:58.079
the legs hatch out into larva that
then make pupa and the poper underneath the

2017
02:28:58.159 --> 02:29:03.639
leaves of your plant eternal leaf over
and you see, imagine a fish scale

2018
02:29:03.760 --> 02:29:07.120
that was only about the size of
a small lowercase typed. Oh, that's

2019
02:29:07.159 --> 02:29:13.159
about the size of them. And
they're not they're not necessarily fish scale color.

2020
02:29:13.319 --> 02:29:16.600
They can be kind of a tannish
color, light greenish color, but

2021
02:29:16.719 --> 02:29:20.079
that's what they are. And they
suck juices out of plants and then out

2022
02:29:20.159 --> 02:29:26.399
the back end of the crater becomes
a honey dew material that causes city mold

2023
02:29:26.479 --> 02:29:30.000
to grow. So that's the whole
issue with the white flies. What I

2024
02:29:30.120 --> 02:29:35.559
was saying earlier, Okay, then
that that's not white flies. Then uh

2025
02:29:35.920 --> 02:29:39.799
okay. Yeah, Like I say, they were very very white, and

2026
02:29:39.200 --> 02:29:43.399
I just walk in my yard right
now and they're all over the place.

2027
02:29:46.159 --> 02:29:48.239
Well, there's a lot. There's
a lot of moths out there. You

2028
02:29:48.319 --> 02:29:50.879
know, when we have moths in
the lawn, people worry about side web

2029
02:29:50.920 --> 02:29:54.639
worms. Sideweb worms are not white
and it's a it's a moth. It's

2030
02:29:54.680 --> 02:29:58.600
a small moth, but it's still
a moth. It's not like a gnat.

2031
02:29:58.239 --> 02:30:03.239
So I don't know what you're seeing. I can't think of a lawn

2032
02:30:03.719 --> 02:30:09.920
pest that is a white nat sized. Like I say, I'm I'm surrounding

2033
02:30:11.000 --> 02:30:13.879
in the middle of my beautiful front
yard, and I don't want it to

2034
02:30:13.000 --> 02:30:16.200
not to be beautiful. Yeah,
yeah, Well, I know the schedule

2035
02:30:16.200 --> 02:30:20.280
of the old schedule, but I
do follow the schedule. I don't think

2036
02:30:20.319 --> 02:30:22.639
there's a problem. I mean,
the only thing I would tell you is

2037
02:30:22.719 --> 02:30:26.239
if you could capture some you'd almost
need one of them a little entomologists sweep

2038
02:30:26.360 --> 02:30:30.479
nuts to swing by, and you
know I've done it before with Teape.

2039
02:30:30.680 --> 02:30:33.520
Okay, well, if you can
capture some, take a picture of them

2040
02:30:33.520 --> 02:30:35.920
as close as you can get,
but an absolutely sharp focus. If you'll

2041
02:30:35.959 --> 02:30:39.559
send them to me, I'll tell
you what they are if you are.

2042
02:30:41.159 --> 02:30:43.399
If you want to do that,
I'll put you on hold, and Josh

2043
02:30:43.479 --> 02:30:45.600
can tell you how to send them
to me. If not, that's fine

2044
02:30:45.639 --> 02:30:48.360
too. I know how to send
them. I think it as the same

2045
02:30:48.399 --> 02:30:52.319
as it used to be. If
not, haven't put me on I'm gonna

2046
02:30:52.319 --> 02:30:54.479
put you on hold. Josh.
I'll get a hold of you and get

2047
02:30:54.520 --> 02:30:58.680
you the right Thank you, you
bet, Thanks Cooper. Now we are

2048
02:30:58.719 --> 02:31:03.079
going to head out to Texas Grad
Ranch and talk to Bob. Bob,

2049
02:31:03.159 --> 02:31:07.760
where are you from out there?
I live in Texas Brand Ranch. Okay,

2050
02:31:07.959 --> 02:31:13.079
all right, um, Hey,
I've had the back of our lot

2051
02:31:13.520 --> 02:31:16.479
underbrush and I'm fighting your pond.
Um. You know, we've got some

2052
02:31:16.879 --> 02:31:22.000
good sized pines and oaks back there, and I wonder if I were to

2053
02:31:22.040 --> 02:31:26.680
get a hose on sprayer and pull
it with the water deluded chloropole. However

2054
02:31:26.799 --> 02:31:33.399
you say that, uh herb beside
if it would harm the bigger trees.

2055
02:31:35.280 --> 02:31:39.479
I'm not following which herb beside,
you're talking about, um, how much

2056
02:31:39.879 --> 02:31:43.239
how big is this area? I
mean we talking about an acre, we

2057
02:31:43.319 --> 02:31:48.120
talk about a lot acres or what
it's probably it's probably no more than an

2058
02:31:48.159 --> 02:31:54.600
acre and a half um and you
know the underbrushing probably only an acre.

2059
02:31:54.760 --> 02:32:01.239
The rest of it is still a
while. But go ahead, go ahead.

2060
02:32:01.719 --> 02:32:05.239
Well, rather than spray in the
foliage like that, because any product

2061
02:32:05.280 --> 02:32:09.280
they'll kill brush. To spray it
like that, you're gonna have it get

2062
02:32:09.360 --> 02:32:13.000
onto a lot of things and maybe
even damage some desirable plants in the area.

2063
02:32:13.639 --> 02:32:18.959
I would use a product containing trichlopier
t R c l O P y

2064
02:32:20.280 --> 02:32:24.479
R and follow That's what I was
trying to say. Okay, yeah,

2065
02:32:24.639 --> 02:32:28.040
traclopier, But I wouldn't do a
foliage. I would You can do one

2066
02:32:28.120 --> 02:32:31.680
of two things with yopon. You
could just cut them off with you know,

2067
02:32:31.760 --> 02:32:37.159
with a saw or however you would
efficiently cut off yopon. And then

2068
02:32:37.319 --> 02:32:41.639
when you cut the stump, immediately
you paint dab triclopier on it. So

2069
02:32:41.760 --> 02:32:43.840
you would use a little FuMB brush
like you paint with from the box store,

2070
02:32:45.200 --> 02:32:48.760
you know, hardware store kind of
places. But just dip the tycle

2071
02:32:48.879 --> 02:32:52.239
pier on that or dip it in
the tricolo pier and dab it immediately on

2072
02:32:52.280 --> 02:32:54.479
the fresh cut. It will move
down and kill it. Another option is

2073
02:32:54.520 --> 02:32:58.239
if you just kind of rough up
scar up the bark on the edge of

2074
02:32:58.319 --> 02:33:03.319
the yopon around the yopon down low. I've used wheat eaters for that,

2075
02:33:03.639 --> 02:33:07.079
you know. I've used a little
machetti to kind of chop down if it's

2076
02:33:07.079 --> 02:33:11.600
a bigger one, and then you
spray the tricle appier on the trunk of

2077
02:33:11.680 --> 02:33:15.840
it, but mix it with a
little bit of a diesel oil and that

2078
02:33:16.000 --> 02:33:18.520
makes it stick and soak in and
you can get all of it that way

2079
02:33:18.600 --> 02:33:22.680
too. You probably have to retreat
because you're not gonna get at all initially,

2080
02:33:22.159 --> 02:33:31.360
but let me give you go online
and type in brush busters and you

2081
02:33:31.479 --> 02:33:35.399
can put A and M in there
Texas A and M brush Busters, and

2082
02:33:35.559 --> 02:33:39.319
then if you put the word yopon
in something will pop up. That's a

2083
02:33:39.399 --> 02:33:43.280
website that used to be real active. It's it's still some things online left

2084
02:33:43.319 --> 02:33:46.440
over from it. But brushbusters yopon, or if you do brush brusters.

2085
02:33:48.840 --> 02:33:52.600
What's the big woody weed that we
deal with down here. Oh my gosh,

2086
02:33:52.639 --> 02:33:56.760
I can't even say the gosh,
you can't say the name of it

2087
02:33:56.920 --> 02:34:00.959
right now. But any kind of
a brush like or brush uster's poison ivy.

2088
02:34:01.280 --> 02:34:03.479
That would be another example, and
it will tell you how to do

2089
02:34:03.680 --> 02:34:09.879
that trunk treatments. Okay, okay, because this stuff is pretty polar after

2090
02:34:09.319 --> 02:34:11.719
you know, after I mow it. You know, I'm beaten up my

2091
02:34:13.479 --> 02:34:16.920
mower deck, yea because of the
you know, I'm trying to cut it

2092
02:34:18.000 --> 02:34:22.600
as low as possible. Yeah,
yeah, I know. If you if

2093
02:34:22.680 --> 02:34:26.200
you can mow over it with a
mower deck and then follow that up,

2094
02:34:26.639 --> 02:34:30.639
you know, you wouldn't want to
stoop for every little trunk that you got.

2095
02:34:31.239 --> 02:34:33.479
If you do the side of the
trunk treatment before you before you mowed,

2096
02:34:35.319 --> 02:34:37.680
you could stand up and just squirt
down, you know, the base

2097
02:34:37.760 --> 02:34:41.040
of each one. It's really easy
with the oil in it like that to

2098
02:34:41.159 --> 02:34:46.200
do that. Otherwise, imp up
sprayer rather than a host sprayer. Oh

2099
02:34:46.280 --> 02:34:48.680
yeah, I just use a because
you want to. You just want to

2100
02:34:48.719 --> 02:34:50.520
direct a little bit on the sides
of the trunk. You don't have to

2101
02:34:50.639 --> 02:34:54.559
blast it all over the place that
what I couldn't think of was Chinese tallow.

2102
02:34:54.799 --> 02:34:58.600
But the Brushbusters they're they're going to
give you instructions and if you figure

2103
02:34:58.600 --> 02:35:01.879
out how I say do it for
poison ivy, that's how you would do

2104
02:35:01.920 --> 02:35:05.520
it for yopun too. Yeah,
we've got two out here too. We've

2105
02:35:05.520 --> 02:35:07.959
got all card there you go.
You just have all the fun stuff.

2106
02:35:09.239 --> 02:35:15.159
All right. Well, I appreciate
you're being available for people to call.

2107
02:35:15.360 --> 02:35:18.520
I have been a happy Father's Day
and you too. Thank you for the

2108
02:35:18.600 --> 02:35:22.799
kind words. Well, well,
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2109
02:35:22.399 --> 02:35:26.440
We're about to hear some music and
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2110
02:35:26.479 --> 02:35:31.639
skip director. We're here every Saturday
and every Sunday. So if you want

2111
02:35:31.680 --> 02:35:35.840
to get up six am to ten
am every Saturday and Sunday, we're here.

2112
02:35:35.840 --> 02:35:39.360
If you've got neighbors that don't listen, you think might be interested.

2113
02:35:39.959 --> 02:35:45.319
Maybe they're walking across the fence bob
telling you, hey, how did you

2114
02:35:45.399 --> 02:35:48.239
get rid of your yopon? Say
wow, call garden Line. That's how

2115
02:35:48.280 --> 02:35:52.319
you do it. So seriously,
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2116
02:35:52.360 --> 02:35:54.479
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2117
02:35:54.559 --> 02:36:00.280
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2118
02:36:00.719 --> 02:36:05.600
There's another Guardenline somewhere in the country. Lady hosts that. But guard Line

2119
02:36:05.639 --> 02:36:09.079
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2120
02:36:09.479 --> 02:36:11.559
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2121
02:36:11.559 --> 02:36:13.879
you couldn't remember what it was.
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2122
02:36:15.120 --> 02:36:16.600
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2123
02:36:16.639 --> 02:36:18.520
Has been enjoy being with you this
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